strpbrk, wcspbrk, _mbspbrk

Scan strings for characters in specified character sets.

char *strpbrk( const char *string, const char *strCharSet );

wchar_t *wcspbrk( const wchar_t *string, const wchar_t *strCharSet );

unsigned char *_mbspbrk( const unsigned char*string, const unsigned char *strCharSet );

For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.

Libraries

Return Value

Each of these functions returns a pointer to the first occurrence of any character from strCharSet in string, or a NULL pointer if the two string arguments have no characters in common.

Parameters

string

Null-terminated, searched string

strCharSet

Null-terminated character set

Remarks

The strpbrk function returns a pointer to the first occurrence of a character in string that belongs to the set of characters in strCharSet. The search does not include the terminating null character.

wcspbrk and _mbspbrk are wide-character and multibyte-character versions of strpbrk. The arguments and return value of wcspbrk are wide-character strings; those of _mbspbrk are multibyte-character strings. These three functions behave identically otherwise. _mbspbrk is similar to _mbscspn except that _mbspbrk returns a pointer rather than a value of type size_t.

Generic-Text Routine Mappings

Example

/* STRPBRK.C */

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

void main( void )
{
   char string[100] = "The 3 men and 2 boys ate 5 pigs\n";
   char *result;
   /* Return pointer to first 'a' or 'b' in "string" */
   printf( "1: %s\n", string );
   result = strpbrk( string, "0123456789" );
   printf( "2: %s\n", result++ );
   result = strpbrk( result, "0123456789" );
   printf( "3: %s\n", result++ );
   result = strpbrk( result, "0123456789" );
   printf( "4: %s\n", result );
}

Output

1: The 3 men and 2 boys ate 5 pigs

2: 3 men and 2 boys ate 5 pigs

3: 2 boys ate 5 pigs

4: 5 pigs

String Manipulation Routines

See Also   strcspn, strchr, strrchr