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MEMMEM(3)	       FreeBSD Library Functions Manual		     MEMMEM(3)

NAME
     memmem -- locate a	byte substring in a byte string

LIBRARY
     Standard C	Library	(libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <string.h>

     void *
     memmem(const void *big, size_t big_len, const void	*little,
	 size_t	little_len);

DESCRIPTION
     The memmem() function locates the first occurrence	of the byte string
     little in the byte	string big.

RETURN VALUES
     If	little_len is zero big is returned (that is, an	empty little is	deemed
     to	match at the beginning of big);	if little occurs nowhere in big, NULL
     is	returned; otherwise a pointer to the first character of	the first
     occurrence	of little is returned.

SEE ALSO
     memchr(3),	strchr(3), strstr(3)

CONFORMING TO
     memmem() is a GNU extension.

HISTORY
     The memmem() function first appeared in FreeBSD 6.0.

AUTHORS
     Pascal Gloor <pascal.gloor@spale.com>

BUGS
     This function was broken in Linux libc up to and including	version	5.0.9
     and in GNU	libc prior to version 2.1.  Prior to FreeBSD 11.0 memmem
     returned NULL when	little_len equals 0.

FreeBSD	11.1			 May 26, 2015			  FreeBSD 11.1
NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | SEE ALSO | CONFORMING TO | HISTORY | AUTHORS | BUGS

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