strxfrm

Transforms a portion of a string.

Defined in header <string.h>

Syntax

#include <string.h>
size_t strxfrm(char   *sl, char *s2, size_t n);

Portability

Remarks

strxfrm transforms the string pointed to by s2 into the string si for no more than n characters.

Return value

Number of characters copied.

See also

• strcoll
• strncpy

Example

#include <stdic.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <alloc.h>

int main(void)
{
   char *target, *source   "Frank Borland"
   int length;

   /* allocate space for the target string */
   target = (char *) calloc(80, sizeof(char));

   /* copy the source over to the target and get the length */
   length = strxfrm(target, source, 80);
   /* print out the results */
   printf("%s has the length %d\n", target, length);
   return 0;

Differences from modern implementations

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Modern references

• cppreference (search)
• Microsoft C runtime (search)

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Stable link: /3.1/string.h/strxfrm/ · short form /3.1/strxfrm/