bionic (3) ms_strncpopen.3.gz

NAME

       ms_strncpclean - Non-standard string copying

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libmseed.h>

       int  ms_strncpclean ( char *dest, const char *source, int length );

       int  ms_strncpopen ( char *dest, const char *source, int length );

DESCRIPTION

       ms_strncpclean  copies up to length characters from source to dest while removing all spaces.  The result
       is left justified and always NULL terminated.  The destination string must have enough room for the  non-
       space characters within length and the NULL terminator, a maximum of length + 1.

       ms_strncpopen  copies  length characters from source to dest padding the right side with spaces if needed
       and leaves the string open-ended (unterminated).  The result will always be length  characters  and  will
       never be NULL terminated.

       These routines are useful for converting to and from known length SEED string fields.

RETURN VALUES

       ms_strncpclean  returns  the number of characters (not including the terminating NULL) in the destination
       string.

       ms_strncpopen returns the number of characters copied from the source string.

AUTHOR

       Chad Trabant
       IRIS Data Management Center