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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