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.TH memchr 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
.SH NAME
memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr \- scan memory for a character
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <string.h>
.PP
.BI "void *memchr(const void " s [. n "], int " c ", size_t " n );
.BI "void *memrchr(const void " s [. n "], int " c ", size_t " n );
.PP
.BI "[[deprecated]] void *rawmemchr(const void *" s ", int " c );
.fi
.PP
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
.PP
.BR memrchr (),
.BR rawmemchr ():
.nf
    _GNU_SOURCE
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR memchr ()
function scans the initial
.I n
bytes of the memory
area pointed to by
.I s
for the first instance of
.IR c .
Both
.I c
and the bytes of the memory area pointed to by
.I s
are interpreted as
.IR "unsigned char" .
.PP
The
.BR memrchr ()
function is like the
.BR memchr ()
function,
except that it searches backward from the end of the
.I n
bytes pointed to by
.I s
instead of forward from the beginning.
.PP
The
.BR rawmemchr ()
function is similar to
.BR memchr (),
but it assumes
(i.e., the programmer knows for certain)
that an instance of
.I c
lies somewhere in the memory area starting at the location pointed to by
.IR s .
If an instance of
.I c
is not found, the behavior is undefined.
Use either
.BR strlen (3)
or
.BR memchr (3)
instead.
.SH RETURN VALUE
The
.BR memchr ()
and
.BR memrchr ()
functions return a pointer
to the matching byte or NULL if the character does not occur in
the given memory area.
.PP
The
.BR rawmemchr ()
function returns a pointer to the matching byte.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
.TS
allbox;
lbx lb lb
l l l.
Interface	Attribute	Value
T{
.na
.nh
.BR memchr (),
.BR memrchr (),
.BR rawmemchr ()
T}	Thread safety	MT-Safe
.TE
.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
.TP
.BR memchr ()
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
.TP
.BR memrchr ()
.TQ
.BR rawmemchr ()
GNU.
.SH HISTORY
.TP
.BR memchr ()
POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
.TP
.BR memrchr ()
glibc 2.2.
.TP
.BR rawmemchr ()
glibc 2.1.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR bstring (3),
.BR ffs (3),
.BR memmem (3),
.BR strchr (3),
.BR strpbrk (3),
.BR strrchr (3),
.BR strsep (3),
.BR strspn (3),
.BR strstr (3),
.BR wmemchr (3)