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

[Joachim Schmitz]

regis wrote:

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

span?

Bye, Jojo

[Tim Prince]

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.

[Lowell Gilbert]

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

http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/