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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 attributes(7). allbox; lbx lb lb T{ strpbrk()
InterfaceAttributeValue
T}Thread safetyMT-Safe

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

See Also

  1. memchr(3),
  2. strchr(3),
  3. string(3),
  4. strsep(3),
  5. strspn(3),
  6. strstr(3),
  7. strtok(3),
  8. wcspbrk(3)