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authorMike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>2001-10-11 15:49:06 +0000
committerMike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>2001-10-11 15:49:06 +0000
commita9227c40eb16696de3b96947b035df60b410eb9b (patch)
tree2846e0f6319940e853f265eeecf19cead46c7ff7 /lib
parent56ccbf72ac19f1a28de79591d0da378d062ff002 (diff)
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Clarify that strnstr() will stop searching after in encounters a NUL
character. Bump document date. Add a missing comma.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=84808
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/strstr.313
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strstr.3 b/lib/libc/string/strstr.3
index d71537d67bc7..4fd02d2d60f8 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strstr.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strstr.3
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.\" @(#)strstr.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd October 11, 2001
.Dt STRSTR 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ in the null-terminated string
The
.Fn strcasestr
function is similar to
-.Fn strstr
+.Fn strstr ,
but ignores the case of both strings.
.Pp
The
@@ -75,9 +75,12 @@ locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string
.Fa little
in the string
.Fa big ,
-where only the first number of characters, identified by
-.Fa len ,
-are searched.
+where not more than
+.Fa len
+characters are searched.
+Characters that appear after a
+.Ql \e0
+character are not searched.
Since the
.Fn strnstr
function is a