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+/* string-extras.h */
+/*
+ This file is part of the AVR-Crypto-Lib.
+ Copyright (C) 2008 Daniel Otte (daniel.otte@rub.de)
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+/**
+ * \file string-extras.h
+ * \author Daniel Otte
+ * \date 2006-05-16
+ * \license GPLv3 or later
+ *
+ */
+
+/** \fn stridentcnt_P(char* a, PGM_P b)
+ * \brief counts the number of identic chars
+ *
+ * This function compares the supplyed strings and returns the index of the
+ * first char where the strings differ.
+ * \param a pointer to string in RAM
+ * \param b pointer to string in Flash
+ * \return index of the first char where \c a and \c b differ
+ */
+uint16_t stridentcnt_P(char* a, PGM_P b);
+
+/** \fn firstword_length(char* s)
+ * \brief compute the length of the first word in supllyed string
+ *
+ * This function searches for the first whitespace in the string and returns the
+ * number of chars before the first whitespace.
+ * \param s string
+ * \return number of chars in first word
+ */
+uint16_t firstword_length(char* s);
+
+/** \fn strstrip(char* str)
+ * \brief removes whitespace at the beginning and the end of a string
+ *
+ * This function removes whitespaces at the end of a string.
+ * \param str sting
+ * \return pointer to the first non-whitespace char in string
+ */
+char* strstrip(char* str);