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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-04 19:14:57 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-04 19:14:57 +0000 |
commit | ea3aa758f0613eb4538aa90000b1fefafcdc6976 (patch) | |
tree | 6c58fae8633b1642bfe1f4b5f0ea28f071694465 /lib/libc/string/strsep.3 | |
parent | e288cb3c3b2f3f37b0ec44648cf15b3ce1fa3299 (diff) |
some repairs, add example to strdup(3) page
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strsep.3')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strsep.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strsep.3 b/lib/libc/string/strsep.3 index 5af262a074e..dfd835bce89 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strsep.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strsep.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: strsep.3,v 1.4 1998/06/15 17:55:14 mickey Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: strsep.3,v 1.5 1999/06/04 19:14:56 aaron Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -58,13 +58,17 @@ the first occurrence of any character in the string character) and replaces it with a .Ql \e0 . The location of the next character after the delimiter character -(or NULL, if the end of the string was reached) is stored in +(or +.Dv NULL , +if the end of the string was reached) is stored in .Fa *stringp . The original value of .Fa *stringp is returned. .Pp -An ``empty'' field, i.e. one caused by two adjacent delimiter characters, +An +.Dq empty +field, i.e., one caused by two adjacent delimiter characters, can be detected by comparing the location referenced by the pointer returned in .Fa *stringp @@ -101,7 +105,7 @@ While the .Fn strtok function should be preferred for portability reasons (it conforms to .St -ansiC ) -it is unable to handle empty fields, i.e. detect fields delimited by +it is unable to handle empty fields, i.e., detect fields delimited by two adjacent delimiter characters, or to be used for more than a single string at a time. The |