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+.\" $OpenBSD: strnstr.9,v 1.1 2023/12/21 02:57:14 jsg Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
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+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 21 2023 $
+.Dt STRNSTR 9
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm strnstr
+.Nd locate a substring in a string
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In lib/libkern/libkern.h
+.Ft char *
+.Fn strnstr "const char *big" "const char *little" "size_t len"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn strnstr
+function
+locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string
+.Fa little
+in the string
+.Fa big ,
+where not more than
+.Fa len
+characters are searched.
+Characters that appear after a
+.Ql \e0
+character are not searched.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If
+.Fa little
+is an empty string,
+.Fa big
+is returned;
+if
+.Fa little
+occurs nowhere in
+.Fa big ,
+.Dv NULL
+is returned;
+otherwise a pointer to the first character of the first occurrence of
+.Fa little
+is returned.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+The following sets the pointer
+.Va ptr
+to
+.Dv NULL ,
+because only the first 4 characters of
+.Va largestring
+are searched:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+const char *largestring = "Foo Bar Baz";
+const char *smallstring = "Bar";
+char *ptr;
+
+ptr = strnstr(largestring, smallstring, 4);
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr memchr 9