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27.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
28.Dd April 24, 2013
29.Dt SCANC 9
30.Os
31.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm scanc
34.Nd use byte string as lookup table index
35.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In lib/libkern/libkern.h
38.\" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
39.Ft int
40.Fn scanc \
41"u_int size" "const u_char *cp" "const u_char table[]" "int mask"
42.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Fn scanc
46function scans the byte string
47.Fa cp ,
48whose length is
49.Fa size .
50A character in the string is used as an index in the 256-byte
51.Fa table .
52If a bitwise-AND of the byte from the table and
53.Fa mask
54isn't zero or the string is exhausted, the scan stops.
55.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
56.Sh RETURN VALUES
57The
58.Fn scanc
59function returns the length of the rest of the string,
60including the character which made the scan stop.
61If the
62.Fn scanc
63function exhausted the string, it returns 0.
64.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
65.Sh HISTORY
66The
67.Fn scanc
68function emulates a VAX instruction with the same name.
69