Re: in strspn(): what "spn" stands for?

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  • Joachim Schmitz

    Re: in strspn(): what "spn" stands for?

    regis wrote:
    Hello,
    >
    Does somebody here know what "spn" stands for
    in the name of the function strspn() ?
    span?

    Bye, Jojo


  • Tim Prince

    #2
    Re: in strspn(): what "spn&qu ot; stands for?

    Joachim Schmitz wrote:
    regis wrote:
    >Hello,
    >>
    >Does somebody here know what "spn" stands for
    >in the name of the function strspn() ?
    span?
    >
    span was a Cobol verb, which had useful hardware support in certain
    instruction sets. I used it in a string data processing library called
    from Fortran 66, before C or f77 compilers were available.

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    • Lowell Gilbert

      #3
      Re: in strspn(): what "spn&qu ot; stands for?

      "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@sc hmitz-digital.dewrite s:
      regis wrote:
      >Hello,
      >>
      >Does somebody here know what "spn" stands for
      >in the name of the function strspn() ?
      span?
      Correct.

      --
      Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

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