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- From: Larry Weiss <lfw@iadfw.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: String manipulation routines for C
- Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 19:40:05 -0600
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- Stan Milam wrote:
- >
- > Greg DiGiorgio (nngis@norfolk.infi.net) wrote:
- >
- > : stricmp - same as above, but case insensitive
- > : strrev - reverse a string
- > : itoa - xlat an integer to a string (like BASIC's STR fn)
- >
- > These are not standard ANSI functions. They may exist in your DOS C library,
- > but more than likely they do *not* exist in a UNIX C library. I know you are
- > enthusiastic and trying to help, but please be sure of what you write before
- > posting. This kind of misinformation is sure to cause the original poster, and
- > possibly others, hours of frustration and grief.
- >
-
- I'd at least expect some portable source code implementations for these
- non-Standard library functions to be offered, in cases where they are
- being proposed as solutions.
-