RPMATCH(3)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		    RPMATCH(3)



NAME
       rpmatch - determine if the answer to a question is affirmative or nega-
       tive

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       int rpmatch(const char *response);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       rpmatch():
	   Since glibc 2.19:
	       _DEFAULT_SOURCE
	   Glibc 2.19 and earlier:
	       _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
       rpmatch() handles a user response to yes or no questions, with  support
       for internationalization.

       response	 should be a null-terminated string containing a user-supplied
       response, perhaps obtained with fgets(3) or getline(3).

       The user's language preference is taken into account per	 the  environ-
       ment variables LANG, LC_MESSAGES, and LC_ALL, if the program has called
       setlocale(3) to effect their changes.

       Regardless of the locale, responses matching ^[Yy] are always  accepted
       as  affirmative,	 and those matching ^[Nn] are always accepted as nega-
       tive.

RETURN VALUE
       After examining response, rpmatch() returns 0 for a recognized negative
       response	 ("no"),  1 for a recognized positive response ("yes"), and -1
       when the value of response is unrecognized.

ERRORS
       A return value of -1 may indicate either	 an  invalid  input,  or  some
       other  error.   It  is  incorrect  to  only test if the return value is
       nonzero.

       rpmatch() can fail for any of the reasons that regcomp(3) or regexec(3)
       can  fail;  the	cause of the error is not available from errno or any-
       where else, but indicates a failure of the regex engine (but this  case
       is indistinguishable from that of an unrecognized value of response).

ATTRIBUTES
       For   an	  explanation	of   the  terms	 used  in  this	 section,  see
       attributes(7).

       +----------+---------------+----------------+
       |Interface | Attribute	  | Value	   |
       +----------+---------------+----------------+
       |rpmatch() | Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
       +----------+---------------+----------------+

CONFORMING TO
       rpmatch() is not required by any standard, but is available  on	a  few
       other systems.

BUGS
       The  rpmatch()  implementation  looks  at  only	the first character of
       response.  As a consequence, "nyes" returns 0, and "ynever;  not	 in  a
       million	years"	returns	 1.   It  would	 be preferable to accept input
       strings much more strictly, for example	(using	the  extended  regular
       expression   notation  described	 in  regex(7)):	 ^([yY]|yes|YES)$  and
       ^([nN]|no|NO)$.

EXAMPLE
       The following program displays the results when rpmatch() is applied to
       the string given in the program's command-line argument.

       #define _SVID_SOURCE
       #include <locale.h>
       #include <stdlib.h>
       #include <string.h>
       #include <stdio.h>

       int
       main(int argc, char *argv[])
       {
	   if (argc != 2 || strcmp(argv[1], "--help") == 0) {
	       fprintf(stderr, "%s response\n", argv[0]);
	       exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	   }

	   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
	   printf("rpmatch() returns: %d\n", rpmatch(argv[1]));
	   exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
       }

SEE ALSO
       fgets(3), getline(3), nl_langinfo(3), regcomp(3), setlocale(3)

COLOPHON
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       description of the project, information about reporting bugs,  and  the
       latest	  version     of     this    page,    can    be	   found    at
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



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