1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 * linux/tools/lib/string.c
5 * Copied from linux/lib/string.c, where it is:
7 * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
9 * More specifically, the first copied function was strtobool, which
12 * d0f1fed29e6e ("Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents")
19 #include <linux/string.h>
20 #include <linux/ctype.h>
21 #include <linux/compiler.h>
24 * memdup - duplicate region of memory
26 * @src: memory region to duplicate
27 * @len: memory region length
29 void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
31 void *p = malloc(len);
40 * strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
44 * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0', or
45 * [oO][NnFf] for "on" and "off". Otherwise it will return -EINVAL. Value
46 * pointed to by res is updated upon finding a match.
48 int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
86 * strlcpy - Copy a C-string into a sized buffer
87 * @dest: Where to copy the string to
88 * @src: Where to copy the string from
89 * @size: size of destination buffer
91 * Compatible with *BSD: the result is always a valid
92 * NUL-terminated string that fits in the buffer (unless,
93 * of course, the buffer size is zero). It does not pad
94 * out the result like strncpy() does.
96 * If libc has strlcpy() then that version will override this
99 size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
101 size_t ret = strlen(src);
104 size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret;
105 memcpy(dest, src, len);
112 * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @str.
113 * @str: The string to be stripped.
115 * Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in @str.
117 char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
119 while (isspace(*str))
125 * strim - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
126 * @s: The string to be stripped.
128 * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator
129 * in the given string @s. Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace
142 while (end >= s && isspace(*end))
146 return skip_spaces(s);
150 * strreplace - Replace all occurrences of character in string.
151 * @s: The string to operate on.
152 * @old: The character being replaced.
153 * @new: The character @old is replaced with.
155 * Returns pointer to the nul byte at the end of @s.
157 char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new)