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strings.h(3HEAD)

Name

strings.h, strings - string operations

Synopsis

#include <strings.h>

Description

The <strings.h> header defines the following:

size_t

as described in <stddef.h>

locale_t

as described in <locale.h>

The <strings.h> header also provides function prototypes for functions as listed in the following man pages:

• bstring(3C)
• ffs(3C)
• index(3C)
• strcmp(3C)

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Interface Stability Committed Standard POSIX.1-2001 through 2008, SUS through SUSv4, XPG4v2 through XPG7

See Also

bstring(3C), ffs(3C), index(3C), strcmp(3C), locale.h(3HEAD), stddef.h(3HEAD), string.h(3HEAD), attributes(7), standards(7)

History

The <strings.h> header has been included in Solaris since the Solaris 2.5 release. It had previously been included in SunOS and Solaris 1.x releases, but was not included in Solaris 2.0 through 2.4.