strpbrk(3)

strpbrk3

String search characters

Usage

#include <string.h>

char *strpbrk(const char *s, const char *accept);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The strpbrk() function locates the first occurrence in the string s of any of the bytes in the string accept.

Return value

The strpbrk() function returns a pointer to the byte in s that matches one of the bytes in accept, or NULL if no such byte is found.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
strpbrk()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 14 times.

  1. 1.1–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11
  13. 12
  14. 13
  15. Arch

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

Bugs

The name of this function is bad. It should have been named strchrs(). The NAME section above reflects this.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.