Why does strncpy not always write a '\0'? []

How can I split up a string into whitespace-separated fields? []

I need some code to do regular expression and wildcard matching. []

How Do You Handle Unicode? [ 2000/06/29]

Questions and Answers

textutils - is a set of utilities for manipulating text. {GPL,GNU}

KFileReplace - KFileReplace is a KDE utility ti replace strings (text expressions) inside all files of a directory. Is includes very powerful jokers options (* for words, ? for characters). Ready for KDE 1.x and 2.0 {(L)GPL}

p5-Text-Balanced-1.89 - Text::Balanced - extract delimited text sequences from strings

p5-Lingua-EN-Numbers-Ordinate-0.01 - Go from cardinal number (3) to ordinal ("3rd")

p5-Lingua-EN-Nickname-1.12 - Genealogical nickname matching (Liz=Beth)

p5-Lingua-EN-NameParse-1.18 - Perl routines for manipulating a person's name

p5-Lingua-EN-Inflect-1.88 - Convert singular words to their plural form

p5-Lingua-EN-Infinitive-1.04 - Determine the infinitive form of a conjugated word

p5-Lingua-EN-Gender-0.02 - Inflect pronouns for gender

p5-Text-FixedLength-Extra-1.1 - Various niceties for p5-Text-FixedLength lovers

xin-1.0.0 - Splits standard input and pipes into a command

numchar-1.0 - Converts phone numbers between digits and characters

p5-String-Strip-1.01 - Perl extension for fast, commonly used, string operations

p5-Text-DoubleMetaphone-0.05 - Phonetic encoding of words

p5-Text-Template-1.42 - Expand template text with embedded Perl

sarep-1.1 - Command-line search and replace tool; written in Perl; handles regexps

filepp-1.4.2 - A generic file preprocessor

rotfl-0.6.4 - rotfl is a simple text-formatting language

ruby-strscan-0.6.5 - Fast string scanner class for Ruby

boxes-1.0.1 - Draws ASCII-art configurable boxes around text or code

p5-Text-Autoformat-1.04 - Automatic and manual text wrapping and reformating formatting

p5-Text-Wrapper-1.000 - Simple word wrapping routine

tuc-1.10 - Text to Unix Conversion

p5-Text-FixedLength-0.12 - Parse and create fixed length field records

p5-Template-Toolkit-2.06 - Extensive Toolkit for template processing

p5-dTemplate-2.0 - A powerful template handling logic with advanced features

p5-Text-FillIn-0.05 - A class implementing a fill-in template

i18ntools-1.0 - Tools for the conversion to and from UTF-8 Unicode encoding

iconv-2.0_3 - Charset conversion library and utilities

p5-Text-Metaphone-1.96 - A modern soundex: phonetic encoding of words

py22-spark-0.6.1 - Scanning, Parsing, and Rewriting Kit

roap-0.1.2 - Region Oriented Ascii Processor

rotix-0.82_1 - A program to generate rotational obfuscations

vi-vis2u-1.0 - VISCII->Unicode conversion

ctrl - Transform symbolic to real escape sequences {oss}

rot - Rotate text {oss}

vstr - Dynamic string package {oss}

strsed - String function to do sed(1)/tr(1) manipulations {oss}

strings - String routines {oss}

tabs - A tab/space conversion program {oss}

fgres - search and replace character patterns, {oss}

SLmail 5.0 up to 25-users

Applications and Utilities

strlen (3) - find length of string {oss}

string (3) - string specific functions (function list with references of other man pages) {oss}

strcat (3) - concatenate strings {oss}

strcpy (3) - copy strings {oss}

strdup (3) - save a copy of a string {oss}

strsep (3) - separate strings {oss}

unvis strunvis (3) - decode a visual representation of characters {oss}

vis strvis strvisx (3) - visually encode characters {oss}

strxfrm (3) - transform a string under locale {oss}

getopt (3) - get option character from command line argument list {oss}

getsubopt (3) - get sub options from an argument {oss}

printf fprintf sprintf snprintf asprintf asnprintf vprintf vfprintf vsprintf vsnprintf vasprintf vansprintf (3) - formatted output conversion {oss}

err verr errx verrx warn vwarn warnx vwarnx (3) - formatted error messages {oss}

stdarg (3) - variable argument lists {oss}

stdio (3) - standard input/output library functions {oss}

bit_alloc bit_clear bit_decl bit_ffs bit_nclear bit_nset bit_set bitstr_size bit_test (3) - bit-string manipulation macros {oss}

p5-Lingua-EN-NameCase-1.11 - Perl module to fix the case of people's names

libparanoia-1.4 - Safe (in the mean of stack smashing) reincarnation of strcpy et al

libunicode-0.4_2 - A library for manipulating Unicode characters and strings

p5-Unicode-String-2.06 - These are experimental Perl5 modules to handle various Unicode issues

str-0.9.7 - Generic String Library

p5-String-RexxParse-1.08 - Perl module that provides an interface to REXX parsing routines

p5-CGI-ArgChecker-0.02 - Perl module implementing a cgi interface to String::Checker

libcache-1.1.0 - C library that allows a programmer to parse sentences easier

libutf-8.1.0 - Unicode conversion routines between UCS-4 and UTF-8

p5-Lingua-EN-Sentence-0.23 - Module for splitting text into sentences

py22-dsv-1.3.3 - A Python module to parse or write delimeter-separated (e.g. CSV) files

ruby-rmail-0.8 - A light-weight mail manipulating library for Ruby

Sstrcpy.C - Overlapping strcpy() and strcat() work-alikes {oss}

Sstrdel.C - Delete multiple substrings from a string {oss}

Stptok.C - Improved tokenizing function {oss}

Strchcat.C - Append a single character to a string {oss}

Strdel.C - Delete a section of a string {oss}

Strdelch.C - Delete specific character(s) in a string {oss}

Strdup.C - Portable strdup() {oss}

Strecpy.C - Like strcpy, but returns pointer to NUL {oss}

Strecpy.Asm - Fast x86 assembly version of Strecpy.C {oss}

Stristr.C - Case-insensitive strstr() work-alike {oss}

Strrepl.C - Replace substrings {oss}

Strrev.C - Reverse a string in place using XOR swapping {oss}

Strrpbrk.C - Like ANSI/ISO strpbrk(), but searches from end of string {oss}

Strupr.C - Portable strupr() strlwr() {oss}

Translat.C - Translate string w/ C-style escape sequences {oss}

Xstrcat.C - String concatenation function {oss}

Rmallws.C - Remove all whitespace from a string {oss}

Rmlead.C - Remove leading whitespace from a string {oss}

Rmtrail.C - Remove trailing whitespace from a string {oss}

Trim.C - Trim leading, trailing, & embedded spaces {oss}

Lv1Ws.C - Convert all whitespace in a string to single spaces {oss}

Bcdl.C - BCD math (to/from long) functions {oss}

Bcdd.C - BCD math (to/from double) functions {oss}

Bcdd.Doc - Manual pages for BCDD.C functions {oss}

Phonetic.H, Soundex.C, Soundex4.C Metaphon.C - Functions to match similar sounding strings, Soundex, and variants {oss}

Approx.C - Fuzzy string search {oss}

Str.Doc, Str.H, Str.Cpp - David Nugent's simple (sic!) string class {oss}

Pcnvrt.H - Convert Pascal strings to C {oss}

Permute1.C - Permute strings {oss}

Permute2.C - Permute strings {oss}

Xstrcmp.C - Compare strings using DOS wildcards {oss}

Repstr.C - Replace a pattern in a large amount of dat {oss}

Strcase.C - Converts to upper/lower case using non-ASCII conversion {oss}

Strnsub.C - Search for a string, replace it with a new string {oss}

Strrepc.C - Replace all occurrances of one character with another {oss}

Strtrim.C - Trim blanks from a string {oss}

Strtrimc.C - Remove specific characters from a string {oss}

Bigfac.C - Do large factorials using ASCII multiply {oss}

stringlib - X3J11/SVID/4BSD/etc string library {oss}

Libmib Allocated String Functions - Fast, efficient, allocated strings.Use in place of fixed length string buffers, with nearly identical syntax, compatibility with other functions. {oss}

String::Parity - Parity functions for strings. In an ideal world, this module would be obsolete, because everything would be 8-bit clean and strings would use one of the 8 bit ISO character sets if not UNICODE. But some prehistoric device called "modems" still use [Perl] {oss}

String::ShellQuote - Quotes strings for safe passage through shells. [Perl] {oss}

Text::StripHigh - Converts eight-bit characters to seven bits. [Perl] {oss}

stem.pl - Not a module, but a library file. stem.pl performs text stemming -- finding the "root word." For instance, the stem of "walked" is "walk", and the stem of "stemming" is "stem". stem.pl is in the Text:: module set. [Perl] {oss}

TeX::Hyphen - uses TeX's hyphenation table to hyphenate words. You don't need TeX to use the module. [Perl] {oss}

The Text-Tabs+Wrap Bundle - contains Text::Tabs and Text::Wrap, both described below. [Perl] {oss}

Text::German - Stems German words. Also see stem.pl. [Perl] {oss}

Text::Tabs - In a document, you can replace multiple spaces with tabs, or tabs with multiple spaces, just like the Unix "expand" and "unexpand" utilities. Part of the Text-Tabs+Wrap bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Text::Template - This module defines a "template" as a chunk of text with cute little Perl expressions embedded in it. You can use this module to replace the expressions with their values. [Perl] {oss}

Text::Vpp - A "versatile preprocessor" for text; it lets you embed variables and conditionals in your file. [Perl] {oss}

Text::Wrap - Line wrapping and paragraph reformatting. Part of the Text-Tabs+Wrap bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Text::Trie - Given a list of strings, returns their common heads and tails. [Perl] {oss}

Cz - Tools for manipulating Czech text. [Perl] {oss}

No - Tools for manipulating Norwegian text. [Perl] {oss}

Unicode - Support for the Unicode standard character sets. A future release of Perl will probably support Unicode in the core in such a way that this module will be obsolete. [Perl] {oss}

Libraries and Functions

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NUL terminated String Comparison and Search - covers functions for comparing strings, finding characters within strings, et al.

See also: String-Integer-String conversions - Converting strings to and from integers. ascii to long, long to ascii, etc.

See also: String-Non-Integer-String conversions - (conversion to and from floating point, time, dates, et al.)

See also: Host, service name, and address operations - Methods and functions for doing address, host, user, and service name lookups. also Internet Assigned Numbers

See also: File Path Name Strings - Operations on hierarchical names (paths, files, identifiers)

See also: Text Output - generating text and character output.

See also: File filtering and processing - Methods of filtering and processing files. (character translation, comparison, search, word counts, etc.)

Up to Text Strings - Gateway topic to character and string processing routines. NUL Terminated String processing String conversions,et al. ascii to long, long to