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From: volpe@camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Useful string function
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Date: 26 Jun 91 15:43:48 GMT
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In article <27187@ttidca.TTI.COM>, hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The
Polymath) writes:
|>Here's a simple minor hack I threw together.  It's proved so useful, I'm
|>amazed it isn't part of the standard Unix libraries.

That's because it's part of the standard C library, and it's called
"strstr". Check the man page.

|>  (C'mon.  Even BASIC
|>does this)!  Anyway, it's a function that finds a substring within a
|>string and returns its starting location or -1 if the substring isn't
|>there.  I'm sure you can think of many variations and improvements.  This
|>version does what I need it to.  Enjoy.
                                                              

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Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
volpecr@crd.ge.com