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From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Useful string function
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.203655.29321@solbourne.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 20:36:55 GMT
References: <27187@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1991Jun26.164123.6281@watson.ibm.com>
Organization: Solbourne, User Interface Group
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Approved: Sure thing luke.

In article <1991Jun26.164123.6281@watson.ibm.com> pierce@watson.ibm.com () writes:
>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.

And the ones that didn't it was easy enough to write

char *strstr (register char *str, register char *substr)
{
	register int len = strlen (substr);

	for (str = strchr (str, *substr);
	     str && strncmp (str, substr, len) != 0;
	     str = strchr (str + 1, *substr))
		continue;

	return str;
}

[[ This is typed from memory, so I may have a + 1 where I don't need
   it or lack one where I do ]]

Warner
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