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).

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)