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From: pierce@watson.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Useful string function
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Date: 26 Jun 91 16:41:23 GMT
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From article <27187@ttidca.TTI.COM>, by hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath):
> 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. (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.

It may not be part of ANSI C, but every halfway respectable compiler
I've ever used has had a strstr() function that returns a pointer to
the substring.

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