On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, - Pure Krome - wrote:
>if i have some string (eg .. "hello everyone one. My name is
>DumbNewbie!"), what C function would return TRUE or whatever if i'm
>trying to test if string "DumbNewbie" - or for that matter, _any_ string
>- in some other string.
(May vary with OS)
NAME
strstr - locate a substring
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>
char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle);
DESCRIPTION
The strstr() function finds the first occurrence of the
substring needle in the string haystack. The terminating
`\0' characters are not compared.
RETURN VALUE
The strstr() function returns a pointer to the beginning
of the substring, or NULL if the substring is not found.
SEE ALSO
index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), strpbrk(3),
strsep(3), strspn(3), strtok(3)
char *where_is_it = strstr(string_given, "DumbNewbie");
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