Please explain strnstr
Does anyone know what the string function strnstr does (not strstr), or if it even exists? I can't find anything about it on the Web or in print. I was told (by another programmer) to use it for a program that compares two strings (case insensitive -- which is where the strnstr is suppose to come in handy-- supposedly?). However, this programmer did not explain what strnstr does exactly! A basic definition would be nice to know and a code sample would be great!
Thanx Folks!
I'm sure that someone has written such a function with that name, however, it is not part of the c standard library. I even double checked by searching the includes of all my compilers and found nothing. But you can always make your own.
Goggle gave me this...
http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive...bsd-audit.html
Not a regular libc function yet.
Hi,
Yes this func is not in the standard lib, and is not available in Borland's package either.
However, if you want to do a case-insensitive compare, you can always use several other funcs, including stricmp(), strcmpi(), strnicmp (Borland) or strcasecmp (GNU).
If you would like to compare other data types (not char* or const char*) then, memicmp() is for you.
All these functions (except memicmp) have a ws** version which is useful if you need wide char support.
Hope this helps!
Best Regards,
Bill
I found this site on strnstr (finally).
http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/cgi-b...rstr§ion=3
Thanks for all your help, C ya!:
