strstr(3) [x11r4 man page]

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

NAME

       strstr, strcasestr - locate a substring

SYNOPSIS

       #include <string.h>

       char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle);

       #define _GNU_SOURCE	   /* See feature_test_macros(7) */

       #include <string.h>

       char *strcasestr(const char *haystack, const char *needle);

DESCRIPTION

       The strstr() function finds the first occurrence of the substring needle in the string haystack.  The terminating null bytes ('') are not
       compared.

       The strcasestr() function is like strstr(), but ignores the case of both arguments.

RETURN VALUE

       These functions return a pointer to the beginning of the located substring, or NULL if the substring is not found.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       +-------------+---------------+----------------+
       |Interface    | Attribute     | Value	      |
       +-------------+---------------+----------------+
       |strstr()     | Thread safety | MT-Safe	      |
       +-------------+---------------+----------------+
       |strcasestr() | Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
       +-------------+---------------+----------------+
CONFORMING TO

       strstr(): POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99.

       The strcasestr() function is a nonstandard extension.

SEE ALSO

       index(3), memchr(3), memmem(3), rindex(3), strcasecmp(3), strchr(3), string(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strtok(3), wcsstr(3)

COLOPHON

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       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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								    2017-09-15								 STRSTR(3)

STRSTR(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 STRSTR(3)

NAME

     strstr, strcasestr, strnstr -- locate a substring in a string

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <string.h>

     char *
     strstr(const char *big, const char *little);

     char *
     strcasestr(const char *big, const char *little);

     char *
     strnstr(const char *big, const char *little, size_t len);

     #include <string.h>
     #include <xlocale.h>

     char *
     strcasestr_l(const char *big, const char *little, locale_t loc);

DESCRIPTION

     The strstr() function locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string little in the null-terminated string big.

     The strcasestr() function is similar to strstr(), but ignores the case of both strings.

     The strcasestr_l() function does the same as strcasestr() but takes an explicit locale rather than using the current locale.

     The strnstr() function locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string little in the string big, where not more than len charac-
     ters are searched.  Characters that appear after a '' character are not searched.  Since the strnstr() function is a FreeBSD specific API,
     it should only be used when portability is not a concern.

RETURN VALUES

     If little is an empty string, big is returned; if little occurs nowhere in big, NULL is returned; otherwise a pointer to the first character
     of the first occurrence of little is returned.

EXAMPLES

     The following sets the pointer ptr to the "Bar Baz" portion of largestring:

	   const char *largestring = "Foo Bar Baz";
	   const char *smallstring = "Bar";
	   char *ptr;

	   ptr = strstr(largestring, smallstring);

     The following sets the pointer ptr to NULL, because only the first 4 characters of largestring are searched:

	   const char *largestring = "Foo Bar Baz";
	   const char *smallstring = "Bar";
	   char *ptr;

	   ptr = strnstr(largestring, smallstring, 4);

SEE ALSO

     memchr(3), memmem(3), strchr(3), strcspn(3), strpbrk(3), strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strtok(3), wcsstr(3)

STANDARDS

     The strstr() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C90'').

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								 October 11, 2001							       BSD