strpbrk(3)                 Library Functions Manual                 strpbrk(3)

NAME
       strpbrk - string search characters

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).

       +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+
       |Interface                                   | Attribute     | Value   |
       +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+
       |strpbrk ()                                  | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
       +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+
STANDARDS
       C11, POSIX.1-2008.

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

BUGS
       The name of this function is bad.  It should have been named strchrs().
       The NAME section above reflects this.

SEE ALSO
       strchr(3), string(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), wcspbrk(3)

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