strspn

Returns the length of the prefix of a string that consists entirely of characters from a set of characters.

Format

#include  <string.h>

size_t strspn  (const char *str, const char
               *charset);

Arguments

str
A pointer to a character string. If this string is a null string, 0 is returned.
charset
A pointer to a character string containing the characters for which the function will search.

Description

This function scans the characters in the string, stops when it encounters a character not found in charset, and returns the length of the string's initial segment formed by characters found in charset.

Return Value
The length of the segment. 


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