/libft_ecole42

My very first library in C

Primary LanguageC

LIBFT

Library Forty Two

Skills that I have improved

  • Rigor
  • Imperative programming
  • Algorithms & AI

Introduction

The aim of this project is to code my own C Library, that will be used along the 42 course.

  • Firstly, I made my own version of some useful functions from libc, that was considered the first part of the project.
  • Secondly, It was asked to code functions that were not included in the original libc, most of the functions would help us to deal with strings.
  • Lastly, I made functions to deal with linked lists. That was the first time I've ever dealt with data structures other than arrays.
  • After the project was done I could include any functions I wanted but I had to made them from skratch.

How to run it?

# Clone the repository
https://github.com/adrianofaus/Projects_42_School.git

# Access the folder
cd Projects_42_School/1.Libft

# Run the makefile
make

# Header of libft
Add the libft.h header

# Compile your program with the library
clang main.c libft.a

# Execute the resulted binary
./a.out

# Clean binary and object file
make fclean

# Clean object files
make clean

# Re-compile
make re

LIBFT / C Standard Library table reference

ctype.h

Functions Description
ft_isalpha checks for an alphabetic character.
ft_isdigit checks for a digit (0 through 9).
ft_isalnum checks for an alphanumeric character; it is equivalent to (isalpha(c))
ft_isascii checks whether c is a 7-bit unsigned char value that fits into the ASCII character set.
ft_isprint checks for any printable character including space.
ft_toupper convert lowercase letters to uppercase
ft_tolower convert uppercase letters to lowercase.

string.h

Functions Description
ft_memset fills the first n bytes of the memory area pointed to by s with the constant byte c.
ft_bzero erases the data in the n bytes of the memory starting at the location pointed to by s, by writing zeros (bytes containing '\0') to that area.
ft_memcpy copies n bytes from memory area src to memory area dest. The memory areas must not overlap. Use memmove(3) if the memory areas do overlap.
ft_memmove copies n bytes from memory area src to memory area dest.
ft_memchr scans the initial n bytes of the memory area pointed to by s for the first instance of c.
ft_memcmp function compares the first n bytes (each interpreted as unsigned char) of the memory areas s1 and s2.
ft_strlen The ft_strlen() function computes and returns the length of the string s.
ft_strlcpy copies up to size - 1 characters from the NUL-terminated string src to dst, NUL-terminating the result.
ft_strlcat appends the NUL-terminated string src to the end of dst. It will append at most size - strlen(dst) - 1 bytes, NUL-terminating the result.
ft_strchr returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the character c in the string s.
ft_strrchr returns a pointer to the last occurrence of the character c in the string s.
ft_strnstr locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string little in the string big, where not more than len characters are searched.
ft_strncmp compares only the first (at most) n bytes of s1 and s2
ft_strdup returns a pointer to a new string which is a duplicate of the string s.

stdlib.h

Functions Description
ft_atoi converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by nptr to int.
ft_calloc allocates memory for an array of nmemb elements of size bytes each and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is set to zero.

Not Standard Libc Functions

string functions

Functions Description
ft_substr Allocates and returns a substring from the string ’s’. The substring begins at index ’start’ and is of maximum size ’len’.
ft_strjoin Allocates and returns a new string, which is the result of the concatenation of ’s1’ and ’s2’.
ft_strtrim Allocates and returns a copy of ’s1’ with the characters specified in ’set’ removed from the beginning and the end of the string.
ft_split Allocates and returns an array of strings obtained by splitting ’s’ using the character ’c’ as a delimiter. The array must be ended by a NULL pointer.
ft_itoa Allocates and returns a string representing the integer received as an argument. Negative numbers must be handled.
ft_strmapi Applies the function ’f’ to each character of the string ’s’ to create a new string (with malloc(3)) resulting from successive applications of ’f’.

file descriptor functions

Functions Description
ft_putchar_fd Outputs the character ’c’ to the given file descriptor.
ft_putstr_fd Outputs the string ’s’ to the given file descriptor.
ft_putendl_fd Outputs the string ’s’ to the given file descriptor, followed by a newline.
ft_putnbr_fd Outputs the integer ’n’ to the given file descriptor.

Linked List Functions

Functions Description
ft_lstnew Allocates and returns a new element. The variable ’content’ is initialized with the value of the parameter ’content’. The variable ’next’ is initialized to NULL.
ft_lstadd_front Adds the element ’new’ at the beginning of the list.
ft_lstsize Counts the number of elements in a list.
ft_lstlast Returns the last element of the list.
ft_lstadd_back Adds the element ’new’ at the end of the list.
ft_lstdelone Takes as a parameter an element and frees the memory of the element’s content using the function ’del’ given as a parameter and free the element. The memory of ’next’ must not be freed.
ft_lstclear Deletes and frees the given element and every successor of that element, using the function ’del’ and free(3). Finally, the pointer to the list must be set to NULL.
ft_lstiter Iterates the list ’lst’ and applies the function ’f’ to the content of each element.
ft_lstmap Iterates the list ’lst’ and applies the function ’f’ to the content of each element. Creates a new list resulting of the successive applications of the function ’f’. The ’del’ function is used to delete the content of an element if needed.