strpbrk(3) Library Functions Manual strpbrk(3)
NAME
strpbrk - search a string for any of a set of bytes
LIBRARY
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>
char *strpbrk(const char *s, const char *accept);
DESCRIPTION
The strpbrk() function locates the first occurrence in the string s of
any of the bytes in the string accept.
RETURN VALUE
The strpbrk() function returns a pointer to the byte in s that matches
one of the bytes in accept, or NULL if no such byte is found.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attrib-
utes(7).
┌───────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ strpbrk() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
HISTORY
POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
SEE ALSO
memchr(3), strchr(3), string(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), str-
tok(3), wcspbrk(3)
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