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36.\"     @(#)strstr.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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38.Dd June 4, 1993
39.Dt STRSTR 3
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm strstr
43.Nd locate a substring in a string
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Fd #include <string.h>
46.Ft char *
47.Fn strstr "const char *big" "const char *little"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Fn strstr
51function
52locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string
53.Fa little
54in the null-terminated string
55.Fa big .
56If
57.Fa little
58is the empty string,
59.Fn strstr
60returns
61.Fa big ;
62if
63.Fa little
64occurs nowhere in
65.Fa big ,
66.Fn strstr
67returns NULL;
68otherwise
69.Fn strstr
70returns a pointer to the first character of the first occurrence of
71.Fa little .
72.Sh SEE ALSO
73.Xr index 3 ,
74.Xr memchr 3 ,
75.Xr rindex 3 ,
76.Xr strchr 3 ,
77.Xr strcspn 3 ,
78.Xr strpbrk 3 ,
79.Xr strrchr 3 ,
80.Xr strsep 3 ,
81.Xr strspn 3 ,
82.Xr strtok 3
83.Sh STANDARDS
84The
85.Fn strstr
86function
87conforms to
88.St -ansiC .
89