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I've used strpbrk() occasionally while doing low-level string work in C, but I've never been able to figure out what it stands for. I've always pronounced it internally in my head as "stir p bark", but that's never quite felt right.
It doesn't have an etymology as obvious as any of the other string functions, e.g. strchr (string character) or strspn (string span).
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that all of the original standard library functions were limited to 7-character names either to remain compatible with Fortran, or because in the original C standard, identifiers longer than 7 characters were considered equivalent to their 7-character prefix or something. Can anyone confirm/deny/clarify this?