NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     strstr - locate a substring in a string

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <string.h>

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

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The strstr() function locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated
     string little in the null-terminated string big.  If little is the empty
     string, strstr() returns big; if little occurs nowhere in big, strstr()
     returns NULL; otherwise strstr() returns a pointer to the first character
     of the first occurrence of little.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), strcspn(3), strpbrk(3),
     strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strtok(3)

STANDARDS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The strstr() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').

BSD                              June 4, 1993                              BSD