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

NAME

       memmem - locate a substring

SYNOPSIS

       #define _GNU_SOURCE
       #include <string.h>

       void *memmem(const void *haystack, size_t haystacklen,
		    const void *needle, size_t needlelen);

DESCRIPTION

       The  memmem()  function	finds the start of the first occurrence of the substring needle of length needlelen in the memory area haystack of
       length haystacklen.

RETURN VALUE

       The memmem() function returns a pointer to the beginning of the substring, or NULL if the substring is not found.

CONFORMING TO

       This function is a GNU extension.

BUGS

       This function was broken in Linux libraries up to and including libc 5.0.9; there the needle and haystack arguments were interchanged,  and
       a pointer to the end of the first occurrence of needle was returned.

       Both  old and new libc's have the bug that if needle is empty, haystack-1 (instead of haystack) is returned.  And glibc 2.0 makes it worse,
       returning a pointer to the last byte of haystack.  This is fixed in glibc 2.1.

SEE ALSO

       strstr(3), feature_test_macros(7)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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								    2008-12-05								 MEMMEM(3)