Null-terminated byte strings

 

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Null-terminated byte strings

Functions
Character manipulation
isalnum isalpha islower isupper isdigit isxdigit isblank (C++11)	iscntrl isgraph isspace isprint ispunct tolower toupper
Conversions to numeric formats
atof atoiatolatoll (C++11) strtolstrtoll (C++11)	strtoulstrtoull (C++11) strtofstrtodstrtold (C++11)(C++11) strtoimaxstrtouimax (C++11)(C++11)
String manipulation
strcpy strncpy strxfrm	strcat strncat
String examination
strlen strcmp strncmp strcoll strchr strrchr	strspn strcspn strpbrk strstr strtok
Memory manipulation
memchr memcmp memset	memcpy memmove
Miscellaneous
strerror

 

A null-terminated byte string (NTBS) is a possibly empty sequence of nonzero bytes followed by a byte with value zero (the terminating null character). Each byte in a byte string encodes one character of some character set. For example, the character array {'\x63', '\x61', '\x74', '\0'} is an NTBS holding the string "cat" in ASCII encoding.

Functions

Character classification
Defined in header <cctype>
isalnum	checks if a character is alphanumeric (function)
isalpha	checks if a character is alphabetic (function)
islower	checks if a character is lowercase (function)
isupper	checks if a character is an uppercase character (function)
isdigit	checks if a character is a digit (function)
isxdigit	checks if a character is a hexadecimal character (function)
iscntrl	checks if a character is a control character (function)
isgraph	checks if a character is a graphical character (function)
isspace	checks if a character is a space character (function)
isblank (C++11)	checks if a character is a blank character (function)
isprint	checks if a character is a printing character (function)
ispunct	checks if a character is a punctuation character (function)
Character manipulation
tolower	converts a character to lowercase (function)
toupper	converts a character to uppercase (function)

ASCII values			characters	iscntrl iswcntrl	isprint iswprint	isspace iswspace	isblank iswblank	isgraph iswgraph	ispunct iswpunct	isalnum iswalnum	isalpha iswalpha	isupper iswupper	islower iswlower	isdigit iswdigit	isxdigit iswxdigit
decimal	hexadecimal	octal
0–8	\x0–\x8	\0–\10	control codes (NUL, etc.)	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	\x9	\11	tab (\t)	≠0	0	≠0	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10–13	\xA–\xD	\12–\15	whitespaces (\n, \v, \f, \r)	≠0	0	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14–31	\xE–\x1F	\16–\37	control codes	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	\x20	\40	space	0	≠0	≠0	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33–47	\x21–\x2F	\41–\57	!"#$%&'()*+,-./	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0
48–57	\x30–\x39	\60–\71	0123456789	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	0	≠0	0	0	0	≠0	≠0
58–64	\x3A–\x40	\72–\100	:;<=>?@	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0
65–70	\x41–\x46	\101–\106	ABCDEF	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	0	≠0	≠0	≠0	0	0	≠0
71–90	\x47–\x5A	\107–\132	GHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	0	≠0	≠0	≠0	0	0	0
91–96	\x5B–\x60	\133–\140	[\]^_`	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0
97–102	\x61–\x66	\141–\146	abcdef	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	0	≠0	≠0	0	≠0	0	≠0
103–122	\x67–\x7A	\147–\172	ghijklmnop qrstuvwxyz	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	0	≠0	≠0	0	≠0	0	0
123–126	\x7B–\x7E	\172–\176	{|}~	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0
127	\x7F	\177	backspace character (DEL)	≠0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Conversions to numeric formats
Defined in header <cstdlib>
atof	converts a byte string to a floating point value (function)
atoiatolatoll (C++11)	converts a byte string to an integer value (function)
strtolstrtoll (C++11)	converts a byte string to an integer value (function)
strtoulstrtoull (C++11)	converts a byte string to an unsigned integer value (function)
strtofstrtodstrtold	converts a byte string to a floating-point value (function)
Defined in header <cinttypes>
strtoimaxstrtoumax (C++11)(C++11)	converts a byte string to std::intmax_t or std::uintmax_t (function)
String manipulation
Defined in header <cstring>
strcpy	copies one string to another (function)
strncpy	copies a certain amount of characters from one string to another (function)
strcat	concatenates two strings (function)
strncat	concatenates a certain amount of characters of two strings (function)
strxfrm	transform a string so that strcmp would produce the same result as strcoll (function)
String examination
Defined in header <cstring>
strlen	returns the length of a given string (function)
strcmp	compares two strings (function)
strncmp	compares a certain number of characters from two strings (function)
strcoll	compares two strings in accordance to the current locale (function)
strchr	finds the first occurrence of a character (function)
strrchr	finds the last occurrence of a character (function)
strspn	returns the length of the maximum initial segment that consists of only the characters found in another byte string (function)
strcspn	returns the length of the maximum initial segment that consists of only the characters not found in another byte string (function)
strpbrk	finds the first location of any character from a set of separators (function)
strstr	finds the first occurrence of a substring of characters (function)
strtok	finds the next token in a byte string (function)
Character array functions
Defined in header <cstring>
memchr	searches an array for the first occurrence of a character (function)
memcmp	compares two buffers (function)
memset	fills a buffer with a character (function)
memcpy	copies one buffer to another (function)
memmove	moves one buffer to another (function)
Miscellaneous
Defined in header <cstring>
strerror	returns a text version of a given error code (function)

See also

C documentation for Null-terminated byte strings