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NAME

librock_stristr - Find substring in NUL terminated string. Ignore case.
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SYNOPSIS

#include <librock/parse.h>

char *
librock_stristr(
        const char *psz, /* NUL terminated string to search */
        const char *tofind /* NUL terminated string, what to look for */
);

DESCRIPTION

Returns pointer to first location in psz which matches all characters of tofind according to case insensitive comparison. (toupper(), tolower(), and librock_strncasecmp() are used.)

Typical use is wherever strstr() would be used.

See also librock_memistr().

#ifdef librock_TYPICAL_USE_stristr
    const char *buffer = "In the beginning,";
    const char *ptr = librock_stristr(buffer,"BEGIN");
    if (ptr) {
        printf("%s\n",ptr);
    }
#endif

USES

  strchr()
  tolower()
  toupper()
  librock_strncasecmp()

LICENSE

  Copyright 1998-2002 Forrest J. Cavalier III, http://www.mibsoftware.com
  Licensed under BSD-ish license, NO WARRANTY. Copies must retain this block.
  License text in <librock/license/librock.txt> librock_LIDESC_HC=12440211096131f5976d36be0cddca4cd9152e45

Source Code

./text/compsearch/stristr.c (implementation, plus source of this manual page)

Tests and Supported Platform Types

This is a representative sample. Librock code is highly portable. For a particular platform not reported here, request paid support

librock_stristr passed tests in tstristr (Unix/Linux/BSD: 2002/08/08 sys=FreeBSD using gcc)
librock_stristr passed tests in tstristr (WIN32: 2002/08/08 sys=NT 4.0 using MSVC)


This software is part of Librock

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