6.20.19 strpbrk Function

Search a string for the first occurrence of a character from a specified set of characters.

Include

<string.h>

Prototype

char *strpbrk(const char *s1, const char *s2);

Arguments

s1

pointer to the string to be searched

s2

pointer to characters to search for

Return Value

Returns a pointer to the matched character in s1 if found; otherwise, returns a null pointer.

Remarks

This function will search s1 for the first occurrence of a character contained in s2.

Example

See the notes at the beginning of this chapter or section for information on using printf() or scanf() (and other functions reading and writing the stdin or stdout streams) in the example code.

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  char str1[20] = "What time is it?";
  char str2[20] = "xyz";
  char str3[20] = "eou?";
  char *ptr;
  int res;

  printf("strpbrk(\"%s\", \"%s\")\n", str1, str2);
  ptr = strpbrk(str1, str2);
if (ptr != NULL)
  {
    res = ptr - str1 + 1;
    printf("match found at position %d\n", res);
  }
  else
    printf("match not found\n");
  printf("\n");

  printf("strpbrk(\"%s\", \"%s\")\n", str1, str3);
  ptr = strpbrk(str1, str3);
if (ptr != NULL)
  {
    res = ptr - str1 + 1;
    printf("match found at position %d\n", res);
  }
  else
    printf("match not found\n");
}

Example Output

strpbrk("What time is it?", "xyz")
match not found

strpbrk("What time is it?", "eou?")
match found at position 9