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strxfrm(3C)

Name

strxfrm, strxfrm_l - string transformation

Synopsis

#include <string.h>

size_t strxfrm(char *restrict s1, const char *restrict s2, size_t n);
size_t strxfrm_l(char *restrict s1, const char *restrict s2, size_t n,
     locale_t locale);

Description

The strxfrm() and strxfrm_l() functions transform the string pointed to by s2 and place the resulting string into the array pointed to by s1. For strxfrm(), the string is interpreted as appropriate to the LC_COLLATE category of the current locale. For strxfrm_l(), the string is interpreted as appropriate to the LC_COLLATE category of the locale represented by locale.

The transformation is such that if strcmp(3C) is applied to two transformed strings, it returns a value greater than, equal to, or less than 0, corresponding to the result of strcoll(3C) or strcoll_l(3C), respectively, applied to the same two original strings with the same locale. No more than n bytes are placed into the resulting array pointed to by s1, including the terminating null byte. If n is 0, s1 is permitted to be a null pointer. If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined.

The strxfrm() and strxfrm_l() functions do not change the setting of errno if successful.

Since no return value is reserved to indicate an error, an application wishing to check for error situations should set errno to 0, then call strxfrm() or strxfrm_l(), then check errno.

Return Values

Upon successful completion, strxfrm() and strxfrm_l() return the length of the transformed string (not including the terminating null byte). If the value returned is n or more, the contents of the array pointed to by s1 are indeterminate.

On error, strxfrm() and strxfrm_l() may set errno but no return value is reserved to indicate the error.

Usage

The transformation function is such that two transformed strings can be ordered by strcmp(3C) as appropriate to collating sequence information in category LC_COLLATE of current locale for strxfrm() or of locale represented by the locale for strxfrm_l() respectively.

The fact that when n is 0, s1 is permitted to be a null pointer, is useful to determine the size of the s1 array prior to making the transformation.

The value of the following expression is the size of the array needed to hold the transformation of the string pointed to by s.

1 + strxfrm(NULL, s, 0);

Files

/usr/lib/locale/locale/locale.so.*

LC_COLLATE database for locale

Attributes

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
CSI
Enabled
Interface Stability
Committed
MT-Level
MT-Safe
Standard

See Also

localedef(1), duplocale(3C), freelocale(3C), newlocale(3C), setlocale(3C), strcmp(3C), strcoll(3C), uselocale(3C), wcscoll(3C), wcsxfrm(3C), attributes(7), environ(7), standards(7)

Handling Characters and Character Strings in Internationalizing and Localizing Applications in Oracle Solaris

History

The strxfrm_l() function was added to Oracle Solaris in the Solaris 11.4.0 release.

The strxfrm() function has been included in Solaris since the Solaris 2.0 release.