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<h1><a name="standard_c_string_and_character" id="standard_c_string_and_character">Standard C String and Character</a></h1>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/atof.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:atof">atof</a></td><td class="col1">converts a string to a double</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/atoi.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:atoi">atoi</a></td><td class="col1">converts a string to an integer</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/atol.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:atol">atol</a></td><td class="col1">converts a string to a long</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/isalnum.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:isalnum">isalnum</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is alphanumeric</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/isalpha.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:isalpha">isalpha</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is alphabetic</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/iscntrl.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:iscntrl">iscntrl</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is a control character</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/isdigit.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:isdigit">isdigit</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is a digit</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/isgraph.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:isgraph">isgraph</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is a graphical character</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/islower.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:islower">islower</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is lowercase</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/isprint.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:isprint">isprint</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is a printing character</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/ispunct.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:ispunct">ispunct</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is punctuation</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/isspace.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:isspace">isspace</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is a space character</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/isupper.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:isupper">isupper</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is an uppercase character</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/isxdigit.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:isxdigit">isxdigit</a></td><td class="col1">true if a character is a hexadecimal character</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/memchr.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:memchr">memchr</a></td><td class="col1">searches an array for the first occurrence of a character</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/memcmp.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:memcmp">memcmp</a></td><td class="col1">compares two buffers</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/memcpy.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:memcpy">memcpy</a></td><td class="col1">copies one buffer to another</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/memmove.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:memmove">memmove</a></td><td class="col1">moves one buffer to another</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/memset.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:memset">memset</a></td><td class="col1">fills a buffer with a character</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strcat.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strcat">strcat</a></td><td class="col1">concatenates two strings</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strchr.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strchr">strchr</a></td><td class="col1">finds the first occurrence of a character in a string</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strcmp.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strcmp">strcmp</a></td><td class="col1">compares two strings</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strcoll.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strcoll">strcoll</a></td><td class="col1">compares two strings in accordance to the current locale</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strcpy.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strcpy">strcpy</a></td><td class="col1">copies one string to another</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strcspn.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strcspn">strcspn</a></td><td class="col1">searches one string for any characters in another</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strerror.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strerror">strerror</a></td><td class="col1">returns a text version of a given error code</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strlen.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strlen">strlen</a></td><td class="col1">returns the length of a given string</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strncat.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strncat">strncat</a></td><td class="col1">concatenates a certain amount of characters of two strings</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strncmp.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strncmp">strncmp</a></td><td class="col1">compares a certain amount of characters of two strings</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strncpy.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strncpy">strncpy</a></td><td class="col1">copies a certain amount of characters from one string to another</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strpbrk.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strpbrk">strpbrk</a></td><td class="col1">finds the first location of any character in one string, in another string</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strrchr.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strrchr">strrchr</a></td><td class="col1">finds the last occurrence of a character in a string</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strspn.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strspn">strspn</a></td><td class="col1">returns the length of a substring of characters of a string</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strstr.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strstr">strstr</a></td><td class="col1">finds the first occurrence of a substring of characters</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strtod.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strtod">strtod</a></td><td class="col1">converts a string to a double</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strtok.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strtok">strtok</a></td><td class="col1">finds the next token in a string</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strtol.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strtol">strtol</a></td><td class="col1">converts a string to a long</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strtoul.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strtoul">strtoul</a></td><td class="col1">converts a string to an unsigned long</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/strxfrm.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:strxfrm">strxfrm</a></td><td class="col1">converts a substring so that it can be used by string comparison functions</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/tolower.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:tolower">tolower</a></td><td class="col1">converts a character to lowercase</td>
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<td class="col0"><a href="../../c/string/toupper.html" class="wikilink1" title="c:string:toupper">toupper</a></td><td class="col1">converts a character to uppercase</td>
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