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diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strstr.3 b/lib/libc/string/strstr.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2136c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/string/strstr.3 @@ -0,0 +1,148 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, +.\" on Information Processing Systems. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)strstr.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd October 11, 2001 +.Dt STRSTR 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm strstr , strcasestr , strnstr +.Nd locate a substring in a string +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In string.h +.Ft char * +.Fn strstr "const char *big" "const char *little" +.Ft char * +.Fn strcasestr "const char *big" "const char *little" +.Ft char * +.Fn strnstr "const char *big" "const char *little" "size_t len" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn strstr +function +locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string +.Fa little +in the null-terminated string +.Fa big . +.Pp +The +.Fn strcasestr +function is similar to +.Fn strstr , +but ignores the case of both strings. +.Pp +The +.Fn strnstr +function +locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string +.Fa little +in the string +.Fa big , +where not more than +.Fa len +characters are searched. +Characters that appear after a +.Ql \e0 +character are not searched. +Since the +.Fn strnstr +function is a +.Fx +specific API, it should only be used when portability is not a concern. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +If +.Fa little +is an empty string, +.Fa big +is returned; +if +.Fa little +occurs nowhere in +.Fa big , +.Dv NULL +is returned; +otherwise a pointer to the first character of the first occurrence of +.Fa little +is returned. +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following sets the pointer +.Va ptr +to the +.Qq Li Bar Baz +portion of +.Va largestring : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +const char *largestring = "Foo Bar Baz"; +const char *smallstring = "Bar"; +char *ptr; + +ptr = strstr(largestring, smallstring); +.Ed +.Pp +The following sets the pointer +.Va ptr +to +.Dv NULL , +because only the first 4 characters of +.Va largestring +are searched: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +const char *largestring = "Foo Bar Baz"; +const char *smallstring = "Bar"; +char *ptr; + +ptr = strnstr(largestring, smallstring, 4); +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr memchr 3 , +.Xr memmem 3 , +.Xr strchr 3 , +.Xr strcspn 3 , +.Xr strpbrk 3 , +.Xr strrchr 3 , +.Xr strsep 3 , +.Xr strspn 3 , +.Xr strtok 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn strstr +function +conforms to +.St -isoC . |