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* STRING FUNCTIONS by Daniel J. Barrett. *
* barrett@cs.jhu.edu, ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP *
* *
* THESE ROUTINES ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. *
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Manx `C' provides most of the standard "UNIX" string functions, such
as strcat(), strcmp(), and so on.
Four of the functions that Manx does NOT provide are strspn(),
strcspn(), strpbrk(), and strtok(). Here are my versions of these 4 missing
functions, written from scratch. I wrote several versions, and these were
the fastest. (Undoubtedly, assembler would be faster, but I don't know
assembler. Feel free to "one-up" me. :-))
Note that some of these functions call built-in Manx functions like
index() and strchr(). These versions are FASTER than when I did everything
"by hand".
I don't own Lattice `C', but I suppose these routines will work
if you have the functions index() and strchr()... they would be easy to
write, anyway.
Here are brief descriptions of the 4 functions.
int strspn(string, character_set)
char *string, *character_set;
Starting from the beginning of string "string", count how
many of its characters are found in "character_set". When
you hit the first character NOT in "character_set", RETURN
the number of characters found so far. If either argument
is NULL, strspn() returns 0.
strspn("abcdefg", "abd") returns 2.
strspn("abcdefg", "xyyz") returns 0.
strspn("abcdefg", "dbc") returns 0.
strspn("abcdefg", "dxbgac") returns 4.
int strcspn(string, character_set)
char *string, *character_set;
This function is exactly the opposite of strspn(). Return the
number of characters, starting from the beginning of the string,
that are NOT found in "character_set". Keep counting until you
hit the first character in "string" that IS found in "character_set";
then RETURN. If either argument is NULL, strcspn() returns 0.
strcspn("abcdefg", "abd") returns 0.
strcspn("abcdefg", "xyyz") returns 7.
strspn("abcdefg", "dbc") returns 1.
strspn("abcdefg", "dxbgac") returns 0.
char *strpbrk(string, character_set)
char *string, *character_set;
Return a pointer to the first character in "string" that
appears in "character_set". If either argument is NULL,
strpbrk() returns NULL.
strcspn("abcdefg", "abd") returns "abcdefg".
strcspn("abcdefg", "xyyz") returns NULL.
strspn("abcdefg", "dbc") returns "bcdefg".
strspn("abcdefg", "dxbgac") returns "abcdefg".
char *strtok(string, character_set)
char *string, *character_set;
This is a VERY USEFUL function. The UNIX manual explains it best:
`The strtok subroutine considers the string "string" to consist of
a sequence of zero or more text tokens separated by spans of
one or more characters from the separator string "character_set".
The first call (with pointer "string" specified) returns a pointer
to the first character of the first token, and will have written
a null character into "string" immediately following the
returned token. The function keeps track of its position in
the string between separate calls, so that subsequent calls
(which must be made with the first argument a NULL pointer)
will work through the string "string" immediately following that
token. In this way, subsequent calls will work through the
string "string" until no tokens remain. The separator string
"character_set" may be different from call to call. When no token
remains in "string", a NULL pointer is returned.'
Here is an example program demonstrating strtok().
/******************************************************************/
#include <stdio.h>
extern char *strtok();
char tokesep[] = " \n\t\rx";
main()
{
char buf[BUFSIZ], *tokep;
while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin)) {
tokep = strtok(buf, tokesep);
do {
printf("Token is %s\n", tokep);
tokep = strtok((char *)NULL, tokesep);
}while (tokep);
}
}
/******************************************************************/