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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strxfrm.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strxfrm.3 | 27 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strxfrm.3 b/lib/libc/string/strxfrm.3 index ccd8bcb..308f942 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strxfrm.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strxfrm.3 @@ -48,16 +48,25 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn strxfrm -function -does something horrible (see -.Tn ANSI -standard). -In this implementation it just copies. +function transforms a null-terminated string pointed to by +.Fa src +according to the current locale collation if any, +then copies not more than +.Fa n-1 +characters of the resulting string into +.Fa dst , +terminating it with a null character and then returns the resulting length. +Comparing two strings using +.Fn strcmp +after +.Fn strxfrm +is equal to comparing +two original strings with +.Fn strcoll . +.Sh BUGS +Sometimes the behavior of this function is unpredictable. .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr bcmp 3 , -.Xr memcmp 3 , -.\" .Xr setlocale 3 , -.Xr strcasecmp 3 , +.Xr setlocale 3 , .Xr strcmp 3 , .Xr strcoll 3 .Sh STANDARDS |
