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diff --git a/man3/strxfrm.3 b/man3/strxfrm.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03ff0a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/strxfrm.3 @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:41:28 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH strxfrm 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +strxfrm \- string transformation +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <string.h> +.PP +.BI "size_t strxfrm(char " dest "[restrict ." n "], \ +const char " src "[restrict ." n ], +.BI " size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR strxfrm () +function transforms the +.I src +string into a +form such that the result of +.BR strcmp (3) +on two strings that have +been transformed with +.BR strxfrm () +is the same as the result of +.BR strcoll (3) +on the two strings before their transformation. +The first +.I n +bytes of the transformed string are placed in +.IR dest . +The transformation is based on the program's current +locale for category +.BR LC_COLLATE . +(See +.BR setlocale (3)). +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR strxfrm () +function returns the number of bytes required to +store the transformed string in +.I dest +excluding the +terminating null byte (\[aq]\e0\[aq]). +If the value returned is +.I n +or more, the +contents of +.I dest +are indeterminate. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR strxfrm () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR memcmp (3), +.BR setlocale (3), +.BR strcasecmp (3), +.BR strcmp (3), +.BR strcoll (3), +.BR string (3) |