strformat.h

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#ifndef STRFORMAT_H
#define STRFORMAT_H
#include <iostream.h>
//this file is upcase.h 

void upper(const char lo[], char *up);
void rmsp(char a[]);
//removes extra white-char (space, \t, and \n) from the string, so 
//that only one space is left to separate words

void rmsp(const char a[], char b[]);
//overloaded version.   input string a, output string b
void rmdquote(char a[]); //removes double quote
void rpldquote(char a[], const char r); //replace double quote with r

int isName(char *n);
//return 1 if the string is a scientific organism name such as Homo sapiens
void rmtsp(char a[]);
//remove trailing white characters such as space and \n

void newline(istream &ins); //removes remaining character from input stream
void dlc(char a[]); //deltes the last character

int getNumber(char *&ptr);  
//get number from a pointer that is on the first digit of a string.  
//The pointer will be advanced to the firs non-digit character

int itoa(unsigned int n, char a[]);
//return the number of digits:

int substr(const char ln[], int s, char sub[]);
//picks substring from index s to a white space of ln, copy to sub
//returns strlen of the substr, 0 if no substr
int substr(const char ln[], int s, int f, char sub[]);
//returns substring length  
void firstwd(const char ln[], char sub[], char term=' ');

void append(char *&head, const char *tail, int &len, int &maxlen, 
                int incr);
//carefull, these are managed by new allocation
//incr is the size increment, should be larger than strlen(tail)
//if not the function will increase it automatically
void append(char *&head, const char *tail, int &len, int &maxlen);



#endif