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Copyright (c) 1995 Alex Tatmanjants <alex@elvisti.kiev.ua>
at Electronni Visti IA, Kiev, Ukraine.
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.Dd January 27, 1995 .Dt STRXFRM 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm strxfrm .Nd transform a string under locale .Sh SYNOPSIS .Fd #include <string.h> .Ft size_t .Fn strxfrm "char *dst" "const char *src" "size_t n" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn strxfrm function transform null-terminating string pointed by .Fa src according to the current locale collation if any, then copied not more than .Fa n-1 characters of the result string into .Fa dst , ending it whith null character and return result length. Comparing two strings using .Fn strcmp after .Fn strxfrm is equal to comparing two original strings with .Fn strcoll . .Sh BUGS Sometimes biheviour of this function is unpredicatable. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr setlocale 3 , .Xr strcmp 3 , .Xr strcoll 3 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn strxfrm function conforms to .St -ansiC .