+bool StrToNum(const char *Str,unsigned long long &Res,unsigned Len,unsigned Base = 0);
+bool Base256ToNum(const char *Str,unsigned long &Res,unsigned int Len);
+bool Hex2Num(const std::string &Str,unsigned char *Num,unsigned int Length);
+
+// input changing string split
+bool TokSplitString(char Tok,char *Input,char **List,
+ unsigned long ListMax);
+
+// split a given string by a char
+std::vector<std::string> VectorizeString(std::string const &haystack, char const &split) __attrib_const;
+
+/* \brief Return a vector of strings from string "input" where "sep"
+ * is used as the delimiter string.
+ *
+ * \param input The input string.
+ *
+ * \param sep The seperator to use.
+ *
+ * \param maxsplit (optional) The maximum amount of splitting that
+ * should be done .
+ *
+ * The optional "maxsplit" argument can be used to limit the splitting,
+ * if used the string is only split on maxsplit places and the last
+ * item in the vector contains the remainder string.
+ */
+std::vector<std::string> StringSplit(std::string const &input,
+ std::string const &sep,
+ unsigned int maxsplit=std::numeric_limits<unsigned int>::max()) __attrib_const;
+
+void ioprintf(std::ostream &out,const char *format,...) __like_printf(2);
+void strprintf(std::string &out,const char *format,...) __like_printf(2);
+char *safe_snprintf(char *Buffer,char *End,const char *Format,...) __like_printf(3);
+bool CheckDomainList(const std::string &Host, const std::string &List);
+int tolower_ascii(int const c) __attrib_const __hot;
+std::string StripEpoch(const std::string &VerStr);
+
+#define APT_MKSTRCMP(name,func) \
+inline int name(const char *A,const char *B) {return func(A,A+strlen(A),B,B+strlen(B));}; \
+inline int name(const char *A,const char *AEnd,const char *B) {return func(A,AEnd,B,B+strlen(B));}; \
+inline int name(const std::string& A,const char *B) {return func(A.c_str(),A.c_str()+A.length(),B,B+strlen(B));}; \
+inline int name(const std::string& A,const std::string& B) {return func(A.c_str(),A.c_str()+A.length(),B.c_str(),B.c_str()+B.length());}; \
+inline int name(const std::string& A,const char *B,const char *BEnd) {return func(A.c_str(),A.c_str()+A.length(),B,BEnd);};
+
+#define APT_MKSTRCMP2(name,func) \
+inline int name(const char *A,const char *AEnd,const char *B) {return func(A,AEnd,B,B+strlen(B));}; \
+inline int name(const std::string& A,const char *B) {return func(A.begin(),A.end(),B,B+strlen(B));}; \
+inline int name(const std::string& A,const std::string& B) {return func(A.begin(),A.end(),B.begin(),B.end());}; \
+inline int name(const std::string& A,const char *B,const char *BEnd) {return func(A.begin(),A.end(),B,BEnd);};