strpbrk

Name

strpbrk - search a string for any of a set of characters

Library

libc.lib

Synopsis

#include <string.h>

char * strpbrk (const char *s, const char *charset);

Detailed description

The strpbrk function locates in the null-terminated string s the first occurrence of any character in the string charset and returns a pointer to this character. If no characters from charset occur anywhere in s strpbrk returns NULL.

Examples

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    char one[50];
    char *res;
    strcpy(one,"acdb");
    res = strpbrk(one, "bc");
    if(res != NULL)
       printf("%s\n",res);
    return 0;
}

Output

cdb

Return value

The strpbrk() function returns a pointer to the character in s that matches one of the characters in accept, or NULL if no such character is found.

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