Question

Is there an STL algorithm which can be used to search a sequence of bytes inside a buffer like memmem() does?

Answer 1

I don’t know if this is good code, but the following works, using std::search:

#include <cstdio>
#include <string.h>
#include <algorithm>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    char *a = argv[0];
    char *a_end = a + strlen(a);
    char *match = "out";
    char *match_end = match+strlen(match); // If match contained nulls, you would have to know its length.

    char *res = std::search(a, a_end, match, match_end);

    printf("%p %p %p\n", a, a_end, res);

    return 0;
}