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.TH strpbrk 3 2026-08-10 "Linux man-pages 6.19"
.SH NAME
strpbrk \- string search characters
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <string.h>
.P
.BI "char *strpbrk(const char *" s ", const char *" accept );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR strpbrk ()
function locates the first occurrence in the
string
.I s
of any of the bytes in the string
.IR accept .
.SH RETURN VALUE
The
.BR strpbrk ()
function returns a pointer to the byte in
.I s
that matches one of the bytes in
.IR accept ,
or NULL
if no such byte is found.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
.TS
allbox;
lbx lb lb
l l l.
Interface	Attribute	Value
T{
.na
.nh
.BR strpbrk ()
T}	Thread safety	MT-Safe
.TE
.SH STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
.SH HISTORY
POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
.SH BUGS
The name of this function is bad.
It should have been named strchrs().
The NAME section above reflects this.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR strchr (3),
.BR string (3),
.BR strsep (3),
.BR strspn (3),
.BR strstr (3),
.BR wcspbrk (3)