bsearch(3) Library Functions Manual bsearch(3) bsearch - LIBRARY Standard C library (libc, -lc) #include void *bsearch(const void key[.size], const void base[.size * .nmemb], size_t nmemb, size_t size, int (*compar)(const void [.size], const void [.size])); bsearch() nmemb ( base ) , , key. size. , compar. compar , key, ( ), , , , key , , . bsearch() NULL, . , . attributes(7). +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ |bsearch() | | MT-Safe | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ C11, POSIX.1-2008. POSIX.1-2001, C89, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD. qsort(3), bsearch(). #include #include #include #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof((arr)) / sizeof((arr)[0])) struct mi { int nr; const char *name; }; static struct mi months[] = { { 1, "jan" }, { 2, "feb" }, { 3, "mar" }, { 4, "apr" }, { 5, "may" }, { 6, "jun" }, { 7, "jul" }, { 8, "aug" }, { 9, "sep" }, {10, "oct" }, {11, "nov" }, {12, "dec" } }; static int compmi(const void *m1, const void *m2) { const struct mi *mi1 = m1; const struct mi *mi2 = m2; return strcmp(mi1->name, mi2->name); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { qsort(months, ARRAY_SIZE(months), sizeof(months[0]), compmi); for (size_t i = 1; i < argc; i++) { struct mi key; struct mi *res; key.name = argv[i]; res = bsearch(&key, months, ARRAY_SIZE(months), sizeof(months[0]), compmi); if (res == NULL) printf("'%s': unknown month\n", argv[i]); else printf("%s: month #%d\n", res->name, res->nr); } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } . hsearch(3), lsearch(3), qsort(3), tsearch(3) Artyom Kunyov , Azamat Hackimov , Dmitriy Ovchinnikov , Dmitry Bolkhovskikh , ITriskTI , Yuri Kozlov ; GNU 3 , . . , , . Linux man-pages 6.06 31 2023 . bsearch(3)