| scan_netstring(3) | Library Functions Manual | scan_netstring(3) |
scan_netstring - parse a netstring
#include <libowfat/scan.h>
size_t scan_netstring(const char *in,size_t len,char** dest, size_t *slen);
scan_netstring attempts to parse the netstring in the input buffer (in,len). If the buffer contains a valid netstring, then (*dest,*slen) is set to the start and length of the transported string.
Note that this string is not zero terminated. No copy is made. scan_netstring points it inside the input buffer.
scan_netstring returns the number of bytes in the netstring (the outer representation, not the transported inner string) if parsing worked, or 0 if the input buffer did not contain a valid (or full) netstring.
The raw memory buffer "foo" would become the netstring "3:foo,"
http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt