Re: [NEWBIE] Find a chars name in a string

From: Edward Glamkowski (EGlamkowski@MATHEMATICA-MPR.COM)
Date: 01/05/98


man strstr

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


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>From:  - Pure Krome -[SMTP:pure@SPRINT.COM.AU]
>Sent:  Saturday, January 03, 1998 3:22 AM
>To:    CIRCLE@POST.QUEENSU.CA
>Subject:        [NEWBIE] Find a chars name in a string
>
>Hello all.
>    VERY VERY simple question here.
>
>if i have some string (eg .. "hello everyone one. My name is
>DumbNewbie!"), what C function would return TRUE or whatever if i'm
>trying to test if string "DumbNewbie" - or for that matter, _any_ string
>- in some other string.
>
>i thought of using strcmp but i think that only compares two strings,
>not the _contents_ of one string to some other string.
>
>make sence?
>
>J.
>
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