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Re: memscan() function or equivalent

From GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: memscan() function or equivalent
Date 2017-06-07 15:47 +0200
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 06:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a function in the C Standard Library which already does this?
> I looked went to the declaration of memicmp(), which was string.h, and
> didn't see one that was obvious.
>

>     // Scans forward counting how many chars match the value in c
>     int memscan(char* buf, char c, int len)
>     {
>         int i;
> 
> 
>         // Make sure our environment is sane    
>         if (buf && len > 0)
>         {
>             // Scan forward until we find a non-match
>             for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
>             {
>                 if (buf[i] != c)
>                     break;
>             }
>     
>             // Indicate how many we scanned
>             return(i);
>     
>         } else {
>             // Invalid params
>             return(-1);
>         }
>     }
> 

I don't think there is any but your prototype seems not C inspired since most
mem- functions work on memory objects read as a sequence of unsigned char.

A more C inspired prototype would be as:

/* count the occurence number of c */
size_t memfrq(const void *s, int c, size_t n);

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memscan() function or equivalent "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 06:16 -0700
  Re: memscan() function or equivalent GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 15:47 +0200
    Re: memscan() function or equivalent "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 07:15 -0700
      Re: memscan() function or equivalent scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-07 14:34 +0000
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          Re: memscan() function or equivalent scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-07 14:45 +0000
            Re: memscan() function or equivalent "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 08:07 -0700
              Re: memscan() function or equivalent jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-06-07 09:14 -0700
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      Re: memscan() function or equivalent GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 16:48 +0200
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          Re: memscan() function or equivalent GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 17:37 +0200
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              Re: memscan() function or equivalent GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 18:02 +0200
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                Re: memscan() function or equivalent GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 18:34 +0200
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