Text Processing
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What is Text Processing?
Text processing functions, mostly from <string.h> and <ctype.h>, handle operations on C strings and characters, such as measuring length (strlen), copying (strcpy), concatenating (strcat), comparing (strcmp), and classifying individual characters as alphabetic, numeric, or whitespace. Many of these functions assume null-terminated strings and do not check buffer sizes, so using safer, bounded variants where available reduces the risk of buffer overflows. They form the core toolkit for any program that manipulates text.
Free resources to learn Text Processing
- ArticleC string (string.h) Library
- ArticleC String Functions
- ArticleC Programming Strings
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Text Processing: common questions
Can I learn Text Processing in Hindi?
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Is this Text Processing tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 89 of 141 in the free C Programming roadmap, in stage 15, File I/O. If you are new to C Programming, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.