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1 /* Find the length of STRING, but scan at most MAXLEN characters.
2 Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
7 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
8 License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
17 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
18 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
20 #include <string.h>
22 /* Find the length of STRING, but scan at most MAXLEN characters.
23 If no '\0' terminator is found in that many characters, return MAXLEN. */
25 size_t
26 strnlen (const char *string, size_t maxlen)
28 const char *end = memchr (string, '\0', maxlen);
29 return end ? end - string : maxlen;