memmem - locate a substring
Contents
Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ memmem() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Bugs
In glibc 2.0, if needle is empty, memmem() returns a pointer to the last byte of haystack. This is fixed
in glibc 2.1.
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.
History
musl libc 0.9.7; FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 5.4, NetBSD, Illumos.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
memmem - locate a substring
Return Value
The memmem() function returns a pointer to the beginning of the substring, or NULL if the substring is
not found.
See Also
bstring(3), strstr(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 memmem(3)
Standards
None.
Synopsis
#define_GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include<string.h>void*memmem(constvoidhaystack[.haystacklen],size_thaystacklen,constvoidneedle[.needlelen],size_tneedlelen);
