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<h2 class="chapter">5 Strings and Memory (<samp>string.h</samp>)</h2>
<p>This chapter describes string-handling functions and functions for
managing areas of memory. The corresponding declarations are in
<samp>string.h</samp>.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="bcopy.html#bcopy" accesskey="2">bcopy</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Copy memory regions
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="index.html#index" accesskey="4">index</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Search for character in string
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="memchr.html#memchr" accesskey="6">memchr</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Find character in memory
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="memcpy.html#memcpy" accesskey="8">memcpy</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Copy memory regions
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="memset.html#memset">memset</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Set an area of memory
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="strncasecmp.html#strncasecmp">strncasecmp</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Compare strings ignoring case
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="strncat.html#strncat">strncat</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Concatenate strings
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="strncmp.html#strncmp">strncmp</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Character string compare
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="strncpy.html#strncpy">strncpy</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Counted copy string
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="strpbrk.html#strpbrk">strpbrk</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Find chars in string
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="strverscmp.html#strverscmp">strverscmp</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Compare version strings
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="strxfrm.html#strxfrm">strxfrm</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Transform string
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="wcscasecmp.html#wcscasecmp">wcscasecmp</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Compare wide character strings ignoring case
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="wcsdup.html#wcsdup">wcsdup</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Wide character string duplicate
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="wcsncasecmp.html#wcsncasecmp">wcsncasecmp</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Compare wide character strings ignoring case
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