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NAME

       libfirestring - library for safe, fast string handling

SYNOPSIS

       #include <firestring.h>
       -lfirestring

DESCRIPTION

       libfirestring is a string handling library that provides maximum length
       aware string handling functions to programs.  Several functions provide
       saner  interfaces than the standard libc functions.  libfirestring also
       provides functions that are in most libc’s but not provided for by ANSI
       C, enabling programmers to write ANSI C-compliant code while using such
       safe functions (strcasecmp, strncasecmp, snprintf).

       libfirestring provides a set of functions for  dealing  with  EStrings.
       EStrings  are  binary-safe  objects that, when used with the firestring
       functions, are overflow safe, because  they  include  allocated  memory
       size information with them.

       libfirestring   also   includes  functions  for  dealing  with  reading
       configuration files in an easy to program fashion.

       Miscellaneous functions:
              firestring_malloc(3)
              firestring_realloc(3)

       Starting-letter keys (for String and EString functions):
              n Length-safe (takes a size argument)
              e  EString  (length-safe  and  binary-safe,   takes   a   struct
              firestring_estr_t argument)
              i Case-insensitive
              a Automatically expands EString to correct size (possible memory
              DoS attack in some cases)
              s Writes into a provided instead of to a stream
              f Writes into a specified stream instead of to standard output

       Base library functions:
              firestring_set_error_handler(3)

       String functions:
              firestring_strdup(3)
              firestring_strncpy(3)
              firestring_strncat(3)
              firestring_snprintf(3)
              firestring_strncasecmp(3)
              firestring_strcasecmp(3)
              firestring_concat(3)
              firestring_chomp(3)
              firestring_chug(3)
              firestring_trim(3)
              firestring_hextoi(3)

       EString functions:
              firestring_estr_alloc(3)
              firestring_estr_expand(3)
              firestring_estr_free(3)
              firestring_estr_read(3)
              firestring_estr_sprintf(3)
              firestring_estr_sprintfe(3)
              firestring_estr_vsprintf(3)
              firestring_estr_vsprintfe(3)
              firestring_estr_printf(3)
              firestring_estr_printfe(3)
              firestring_estr_fprintf(3)
              firestring_estr_fprintfe(3)
              firestring_estr_vfprintf(3)
              firestring_estr_vfprintfe(3)
              firestring_estr_strchr(3)
              firestring_estr_strstr(3)
              firestring_estr_stristr(3)
              firestring_estr_starts(3)
              firestring_estr_estarts(3)
              firestring_estr_ends(3)
              firestring_estr_eends(3)
              firestring_estr_strcasecmp(3)
              firestring_estr_strcmp(3)
              firestring_estr_strcpy(3)
              firestring_estr_astrcpy(3)
              firestring_estr_strcat(3)
              firestring_estr_astrcat(3)
              firestring_estr_estrcasecmp(3)
              firestring_estr_estrncasecmp(3)
              firestring_estr_estrcpy(3)
              firestring_estr_aestrcpy(3)
              firestring_estr_estrcat(3)
              firestring_estr_aestrcat(3)
              firestring_estr_estrstr(3)
              firestring_estr_estristr(3)
              firestring_estr_replace(3)
              firestring_estr_areplace(3)
              firestring_estr_toupper(3)
              firestring_estr_tolower(3)
              firestring_estr_munch(3)
              firestring_estr_chomp(3)
              firestring_estr_chug(3)
              firestring_estr_trim(3)
              firestring_estr_0(3)
              firestring_estr_base64_encode(3)
              firestring_estr_base64_decode(3)
              firestring_estr_xml_encode(3)
              firestring_estr_xml_decode(3)

       Configuration file functions:
              firestring_conf_parse(3)
              firestring_conf_add(3)
              firestring_conf_find(3)
              firestring_conf_find_next(3)
              firestring_conf_free(3)

FILES

       /usr/local/include/firestring.h
       /usr/local/lib/libfirestring.so
       /usr/local/lib/libfirestring.a

AUTHOR

       Ian Gulliver <ian@penguinhosting.net>

                                  2002-03-31                  libfirestring(3)