strxfrm

 

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Technical Specifications

 

Strings library

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Null-terminated byte strings

Functions
Character manipulation
isalnum isalpha islower isupper isdigit isxdigit isblank (C99)	iscntrl isgraph isspace isprint ispunct tolower toupper
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atof atoiatolatoll strtolstrtoll	strtoulstrtoull strtofstrtodstrtold strtoimaxstrtoumax (C99)(C99)
String manipulation
strcpystrcpy_s (C11)
strncpystrncpy_s (C11)
strcatstrcat_s (C11)
strncatstrncat_s (C11)
strxfrm
String examination
strlenstrnlen_s (C11) strcmp strncmp strcoll strchr strrchr	strspn strcspn strpbrk strstr strtokstrtok_s (C11)
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memchr
memcmp
memsetmemset_s (C11)
memcpymemcpy_s (C11)
memmovememmove_s (C11)
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strerrorstrerror_sstrerrorlen_s (C11)(C11)

 

Defined in header <string.h>
size_t strxfrm( const char          *dest, const char          *src,                 size_t count );		(until C99)
size_t strxfrm( const char *restrict dest, const char *restrict src,                 size_t count );		(since C99)

Transforms the null-terminated byte string pointed to by src into the implementation-defined form such that comparing two transformed strings with strcmp gives the same result as comparing the original strings with strcoll, in the current C locale.

The first count characters of the transformed string are written to destination, including the terminating null character, and the length of the full transformed string is returned, excluding the terminating null character.

The behavior is undefined if the dest array is not large enough. The behavior is undefined if dest and src overlap.

If count is ​0​, then dest is allowed to be a null pointer.

Notes

The correct length of the buffer that can receive the entire transformed string is 1+strxfrm(NULL, src, 0)

Parameters

dest	-	pointer to the first element of the array where the transformed string will be written
src	-	pointer to the first character of a null-terminated byte string to transform
count	-	maximum number of characters to be written

Return value

The length of the transformed string, not including the terminating null-character.

This function is used when making multiple locale-dependent comparisons using the same string or set of strings, because it is more efficient to use strxfrm to transform all the strings just once, and subsequently compare the transformed strings with strcmp.

Example

Run this code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <locale.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "cs_CZ.iso88592");
 
    const char *in1 = "hrnec";
    char out1[1+strxfrm(NULL, in1, 0)];
    strxfrm(out1, in1, sizeof out1);
 
    const char *in2 = "chrt";
    char out2[1+strxfrm(NULL, in2, 0)];
    strxfrm(out2, in2, sizeof out2);
 
    printf("In the Czech locale: ");
    if(strcmp(out1, out2) < 0)
         printf("%s before %s\n",in1, in2);
    else
         printf("%s before %s\n",in2, in1);
 
    printf("In lexicographical comparison: ");
    if(strcmp(in1, in2)<0)
         printf("%s before %s\n",in1, in2);
    else
         printf("%s before %s\n",in2, in1);
 
}

Output:

In the Czech locale: hrnec before chrt
In lexicographical comparison: chrt before hrnec

References

• C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.24.4.5 The strxfrm function (p: 366-367)

• C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.21.4.5 The strxfrm function (p: 329-330)

• C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):

• 4.11.4.5 The strxfrm function

See also

strcoll	compares two strings in accordance to the current locale (function)
wcscoll (C95)	compares two wide strings in accordance to the current locale (function)
strcmp	compares two strings (function)
wcsxfrm (C95)	transform a wide string so that wcscmp would produce the same result as wcscoll (function)
C++ documentation for strxfrm