strstr, strcasestr - locate a substring
Contents
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 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
Description
The strstr() function finds the first occurrence of the substring needle in the string haystack. The
terminating null bytes ('\0') are not compared.
The strcasestr() function is like strstr(), but ignores the case of both arguments.
History
strstr()
POSIX.1-2001, C89.
strcasestr()
GNU.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
strstr, strcasestr - locate a substring
Return Value
These functions return a pointer to the beginning of the located substring, or NULL if the substring is
not found.
If needle is the empty string, the return value is always haystack itself.
See Also
memchr(3), memmem(3), strcasecmp(3), strchr(3), string(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strtok(3), wcsstr(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-06-15 strstr(3)
Standards
strstr()
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
strcasestr()
GNU.
Synopsis
#include<string.h>char*strstr(constchar*haystack,constchar*needle);#define_GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include<string.h>char*strcasestr(constchar*haystack,constchar*needle);
