Transforms the C string pointed by
source according to the current locale and copies the first
num characters of the transformed string to
destination, returning its length.
Alternativelly, the function can be used to only retrieve the length, by specifying a null pointer for
destination and zero for
num.
Parameters
- destination
- Pointer to the destination array where the content is to be copied.
It can be a null pointer if the argument for num is zero.
- source
- C string to be transformed.
- num
- Maximum number of characters to be copied to destination.
Return Value
The length of the transformed string, not including the terminating null-character.
See also
| strncpy | Copy characters from string (function) |
| strncmp | Compare characters of two strings (function) |
| strcoll | Compare two strings using locale (function) |
