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.

Hello,

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

--
regis

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

Bye, Jojo

regis wrote:
>
> Does somebody here know what "spn" stands for
> in the name of the function strspn() ?

Why don't you read the documentation (or source) from whomever
supplied you that (non-standard) function?

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CBFalconer said:

> regis wrote:
>>
>> Does somebody here know what "spn" stands for
>> in the name of the function strspn() ?
>
> Why don't you read the documentation (or source) from whomever
> supplied you that (non-standard) function?

What non-standard function?

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On Wed, 28 May 2008 09:01:32 -0400, CBFalconer wrote:
> regis wrote:
>> Does somebody here know what "spn" stands for in the name of the
>> function strspn() ?
>
> Why don't you read the documentation (or source) from whomever supplied
> you that (non-standard) function?

strspn was part of the original C standard, and is part of the current C
standard. <OT> And if you have trouble understanding when "whom" is
appropriate, please just avoid it, at least until you figure it out.

"Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> writes:

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

Correct.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> CBFalconer said:
>> regis wrote:
>>>
>>> Does somebody here know what "spn" stands for
>>> in the name of the function strspn() ?
>>
>> Why don't you read the documentation (or source) from whomever
>> supplied you that (non-standard) function?
>
> What non-standard function?

Woops - goofed and missed it. Kill my comment.

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