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C Programming Absolute Beginner’s Guide, Third Edition
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C Programming Absolute Beginner’s Guide, Third Edition

by Greg Perry, Dean Miller
August 2013
Beginner
352 pages
8h 50m
English
Que
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19. Getting More from Your Strings

In This Chapter

• Employing character-testing functions

• Checking whether the case is correct

• Adding case-changing functions

• Using string functions

This chapter shows you ways to take work off your shoulders and put it on C’s. C includes many helpful built-in functions in addition to ones such as strlen(), getchar(), and printf() that you’ve read about so far.

Many more built-in functions exist than there is room for in a single chapter. This chapter explains the most common and helpful character and string functions. In the next chapter, you’ll learn about some numeric functions.

Character-Testing Functions

C has several built-in character-testing functions. Now that you know how to use getchar() and ...

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