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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
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.\" permission notice identical to this one.
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.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no
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.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual,
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.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working
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.\" professionally.
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.\" %%%LICENSE_END
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.\"
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.\" References consulted:
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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:50:48 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" Interchanged 'needle' and 'haystack'; added history, aeb, 980113.
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.TH MEMMEM 3 2017-03-13 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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memmem \- locate a substring
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
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.B #include <string.h>
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.PP
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.BI "void *memmem(const void *" haystack ", size_t " haystacklen ,
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.BI " const void *" needle ", size_t " needlelen );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR memmem ()
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function finds the start of the first occurrence
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of the substring
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.IR needle
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of length
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.I needlelen
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in the memory
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area
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.I haystack
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of length
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.IR haystacklen .
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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The
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.BR memmem ()
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function returns a pointer to the beginning of the
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substring, or NULL if the substring is not found.
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.SH ATTRIBUTES
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For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
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.BR attributes (7).
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.TS
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allbox;
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lb lb lb
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l l l.
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Interface Attribute Value
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T{
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.BR memmem ()
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T} Thread safety MT-Safe
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.TE
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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This function is not specified in POSIX.1,
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but is present on a number of other systems.
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.SH BUGS
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.\" This function was broken in Linux libraries up to and including libc 5.0.9;
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.\" there the
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.\" .IR needle
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.\" and
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.\" .I haystack
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.\" arguments were interchanged,
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.\" and a pointer to the end of the first occurrence of
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.\" .I needle
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.\" was returned.
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.\"
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.\" Both old and new libc's have the bug that if
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.\" .I needle
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.\" is empty,
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.\" .I haystack\-1
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.\" (instead of
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.\" .IR haystack )
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.\" is returned.
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In glibc 2.0, if
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.I needle
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is empty,
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.BR memmem ()
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returns a pointer to the last byte of
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.IR haystack .
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This is fixed in glibc 2.1.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR bstring (3),
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.BR strstr (3)
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