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136 .IX Title "ASN1_STRING_length 3"
137 .TH ASN1_STRING_length 3 "2006-05-14" "1.1.0-dev" "OpenSSL"
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143 ASN1_STRING_dup, ASN1_STRING_cmp, ASN1_STRING_set, ASN1_STRING_length,
144 ASN1_STRING_length_set, ASN1_STRING_type, ASN1_STRING_data \-
145 ASN1_STRING utility functions
149 .IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
151 \& #include <openssl/asn1.h>
153 \& int ASN1_STRING_length(ASN1_STRING *x);
154 \& unsigned char * ASN1_STRING_data(ASN1_STRING *x);
156 \& ASN1_STRING * ASN1_STRING_dup(ASN1_STRING *a);
158 \& int ASN1_STRING_cmp(ASN1_STRING *a, ASN1_STRING *b);
160 \& int ASN1_STRING_set(ASN1_STRING *str, const void *data, int len);
162 \& int ASN1_STRING_type(ASN1_STRING *x);
164 \& int ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(unsigned char **out, ASN1_STRING *in);
167 .IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
168 These functions allow an \fB\s-1ASN1_STRING\s0\fR structure to be manipulated.
170 \&\fIASN1_STRING_length()\fR returns the length of the content of \fBx\fR.
172 \&\fIASN1_STRING_data()\fR returns an internal pointer to the data of \fBx\fR.
173 Since this is an internal pointer it should \fBnot\fR be freed or
176 \&\fIASN1_STRING_dup()\fR returns a copy of the structure \fBa\fR.
178 \&\fIASN1_STRING_cmp()\fR compares \fBa\fR and \fBb\fR returning 0 if the two
179 are identical. The string types and content are compared.
181 \&\fIASN1_STRING_set()\fR sets the data of string \fBstr\fR to the buffer
182 \&\fBdata\fR or length \fBlen\fR. The supplied data is copied. If \fBlen\fR
183 is \-1 then the length is determined by strlen(data).
185 \&\fIASN1_STRING_type()\fR returns the type of \fBx\fR, using standard constants
186 such as \fBV_ASN1_OCTET_STRING\fR.
188 \&\fIASN1_STRING_to_UTF8()\fR converts the string \fBin\fR to \s-1UTF8\s0 format, the
189 converted data is allocated in a buffer in \fB*out\fR. The length of
190 \&\fBout\fR is returned or a negative error code. The buffer \fB*out\fR
191 should be free using \fIOPENSSL_free()\fR.
194 Almost all \s-1ASN1\s0 types in OpenSSL are represented as an \fB\s-1ASN1_STRING\s0\fR
195 structure. Other types such as \fB\s-1ASN1_OCTET_STRING\s0\fR are simply typedefed
196 to \fB\s-1ASN1_STRING\s0\fR and the functions call the \fB\s-1ASN1_STRING\s0\fR equivalents.
197 \&\fB\s-1ASN1_STRING\s0\fR is also used for some \fB\s-1CHOICE\s0\fR types which consist
198 entirely of primitive string types such as \fBDirectoryString\fR and
201 These functions should \fBnot\fR be used to examine or modify \fB\s-1ASN1_INTEGER\s0\fR
202 or \fB\s-1ASN1_ENUMERATED\s0\fR types: the relevant \fB\s-1INTEGER\s0\fR or \fB\s-1ENUMERATED\s0\fR
203 utility functions should be used instead.
205 In general it cannot be assumed that the data returned by \fIASN1_STRING_data()\fR
206 is null terminated or does not contain embedded nulls. The actual format
207 of the data will depend on the actual string type itself: for example
208 for and IA5String the data will be \s-1ASCII\s0, for a BMPString two bytes per
209 character in big endian format, UTF8String will be in \s-1UTF8\s0 format.
211 Similar care should be take to ensure the data is in the correct format
212 when calling \fIASN1_STRING_set()\fR.
214 .IX Header "RETURN VALUES"
216 .IX Header "SEE ALSO"
217 \&\fIERR_get_error\fR\|(3)