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MEMMEM(3)		 BSD 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	big_len	is smaller than	little_len, if little_len is 0,	if big_len is
     0 or if little occurs nowhere in big, NULL	is returned; otherwise a
     pointer to	the first character of the first occurrence of little is re-
     turned.

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.

BSD				August 24, 2005				   BSD
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