Thread: list of standard c functions

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    list of standard c functions

    guys out there... i need some help from you....

    i see functions (library) used in programs which are completely new to me...
    i think that is a problem to any newbie here....
    can anyone suggest some reference of all the library functions present in standard c....
    any site or name of book is welcome....

    thanking you;

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    The man pages are great for looking up C functions, in my opinion. If you're on Windows, you can Google "unix man function_name", and you'll probably find one. (Although some always seem to come up blank.)

    There are, of course, other functions from other libraries, OS specific functions (Windows has about a billion...), etc. Again though, Google Is Your Friend.
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    Beware just about any reference to "standard" functions[1]. They may not be very clear about whether the functions are really specified by the ISO C standard. I like to use this one.

    [1] Except the standard itself, of course.
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    What!!!

    NO conio.h??

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    If you are on the masochist side, you could use the documentation from the ISO C working group. Here is the latest version (at the time of writing this). Interesting stuff is at chapter 7.

    You can't have more standard than this document. But beware; your compiler might not "support" all the function described in the document. Anyway, i'm quite sure no one use this on a regular basic (me included). Can be useful, tough.

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    thank you guys.. that was of great help

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    >Anyway, i'm quite sure no one use this on a regular basic (me included).
    I have a copy of the standard everywhere I have a computer, and I refer to it multiple times a day.
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