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author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-11 03:42:54 +0100 |
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committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-11 03:42:54 +0100 |
commit | 4a3dfbf40eba25a6d355db2ae5ac721f862a0557 (patch) | |
tree | 58a1bed45a004d4e80d4c309895ab9a6585b83c6 /doc/c-strcasestr.texi | |
parent | 4de3b7f8a666cbbebcb63ef90027ee2988d146bb (diff) | |
download | gnulib-4a3dfbf40eba25a6d355db2ae5ac721f862a0557.tar.gz |
Add documentation for the c-* modules.
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diff --git a/doc/c-strcasestr.texi b/doc/c-strcasestr.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5ff1f88b95 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/c-strcasestr.texi @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +@c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strcasestr'. + +@c Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +@c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +@c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +@c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. + +The @code{c-strcasestr} module contains a case-insensitive string search +function operating on single-byte character strings, that operate as if the +locale encoding was ASCII. +(The "C" locale on many systems has the locale encoding "ASCII".) + +The function is: +@smallexample +extern char *c_strcasestr (const char *haystack, const char *needle); +@end smallexample + +For case conversion here, only ASCII characters are considered to be +upper case or lower case. + +Note: The function @code{strcasestr} from @code{<string.h>} supports only +unibyte locales; for multibyte locales, you need the function +@code{mbscasestr}. |