Null-terminated byte strings
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A null-terminated byte string (NTBS) is a possibly empty sequence of nonzero bytes followed by a byte with value zero (the terminating null character). Each byte in a byte string encodes one character of some character set. For example, the character array {'\x63', '\x61', '\x74', '\0'} is an NTBS holding the string "cat" in ASCII encoding.
Functions
Character classification | |
| Defined in header
<cctype> | |
| checks if a character is alphanumeric (function) | |
| checks if a character is alphabetic (function) | |
| checks if a character is lowercase (function) | |
| checks if a character is an uppercase character (function) | |
| checks if a character is a digit (function) | |
| checks if a character is a hexadecimal character (function) | |
| checks if a character is a control character (function) | |
| checks if a character is a graphical character (function) | |
| checks if a character is a space character (function) | |
| (C++11) |
checks if a character is a blank character (function) |
| checks if a character is a printing character (function) | |
| checks if a character is a punctuation character (function) | |
Character manipulation | |
| converts a character to lowercase (function) | |
| converts a character to uppercase (function) | |
| ASCII values | characters | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| decimal | hexadecimal | octal | |||||||||||||
| 0–8 | \x0–\x8
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\0–\10
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control codes (NUL, etc.)
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≠0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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| 9 | \x9
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\11
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tab (\t)
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≠0
|
0
|
≠0
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≠0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| 10–13 | \xA–\xD
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\12–\15
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whitespaces (\n, \v, \f, \r)
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≠0
|
0
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≠0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| 14–31 | \xE–\x1F
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\16–\37
|
control codes | ≠0
|
0
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0
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0
|
0
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0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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| 32 | \x20
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\40
|
space | 0
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≠0
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≠0
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≠0
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0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| 33–47 | \x21–\x2F
|
\41–\57
|
!"#$%&'()*+,-./
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
≠0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| 48–57 | \x30–\x39
|
\60–\71
|
0123456789
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
≠0
|
≠0
|
| 58–64 | \x3A–\x40
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\72–\100
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:;<=>?@
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
≠0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| 65–70 | \x41–\x46
|
\101–\106
|
ABCDEF
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
≠0
|
≠0
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≠0
|
0
|
0
|
≠0
|
| 71–90 | \x47–\x5A
|
\107–\132
|
GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
≠0
|
≠0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| 91–96 | \x5B–\x60
|
\133–\140
|
[\]^_`
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
≠0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| 97–102 | \x61–\x66
|
\141–\146
|
abcdef
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
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≠0
|
0
|
≠0
|
≠0
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
≠0
|
| 103–122 | \x67–\x7A
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\147–\172
|
ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
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≠0
|
0
|
≠0
|
≠0
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
| 123–126 | \x7B–\x7E
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\172–\176
|
{|}~
|
0
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
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≠0
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≠0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| 127 | \x7F
|
\177
|
backspace character (DEL)
|
≠0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Conversions to numeric formats | |
| Defined in header
<cstdlib> | |
| converts a byte string to a floating point value (function) | |
| (C++11) |
converts a byte string to an integer value (function) |
| (C++11) |
converts a byte string to an integer value (function) |
| (C++11) |
converts a byte string to an unsigned integer value (function) |
| converts a byte string to a floating-point value (function) | |
| Defined in header
<cinttypes> | |
| (C++11)(C++11) |
converts a byte string to std::intmax_t or std::uintmax_t (function) |
String manipulation | |
| Defined in header
<cstring> | |
| copies one string to another (function) | |
| copies a certain amount of characters from one string to another (function) | |
| concatenates two strings (function) | |
| concatenates a certain amount of characters of two strings (function) | |
transform a string so that strcmp would produce the same result as strcoll (function) | |
String examination | |
| Defined in header
<cstring> | |
| returns the length of a given string (function) | |
| compares two strings (function) | |
| compares a certain number of characters from two strings (function) | |
| compares two strings in accordance to the current locale (function) | |
| finds the first occurrence of a character (function) | |
| finds the last occurrence of a character (function) | |
| returns the length of the maximum initial segment that consists of only the characters found in another byte string (function) | |
| returns the length of the maximum initial segment that consists of only the characters not found in another byte string (function) | |
| finds the first location of any character from a set of separators (function) | |
| finds the first occurrence of a substring of characters (function) | |
| finds the next token in a byte string (function) | |
Character array functions | |
| Defined in header
<cstring> | |
| searches an array for the first occurrence of a character (function) | |
| compares two buffers (function) | |
| fills a buffer with a character (function) | |
| copies one buffer to another (function) | |
| moves one buffer to another (function) | |
Miscellaneous | |
| Defined in header
<cstring> | |
| returns a text version of a given error code (function) | |
See also
| C documentation for
Null-terminated byte strings |