.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by .\" Chris Torek. .\" .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% .\" .\" @(#)strstr.3 5.1 (Berkeley) 05/15/90 .\" .TH STRSTR 3 "" .UC 7 .SH NAME strstr \- locate a substring in a string .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .ft B #include char * strstr(const char *big, const char *little); .ft R .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .B Strstr locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string .I little in the null-terminated string .IR big . If .I little is the empty string, .B strstr returns .IR big ; if .I little occurs nowhere in .IR big , .B strstr returns NULL; otherwise .B strstr returns a pointer to the first character of the first occurrence of .IR little . .SH SEE ALSO index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), strcspn(3), strpbrk(3), strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strtok(3) .SH STANDARDS .B Strstr conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').