search in HEX for specific bytes

I have a buffer[] including HEX bytes and I want to search this bu开发者_如何学Goffer to find specific bytes. For example:

My buffer has 4096 bytes and I want to search in this if the bytes 45 34 67 23 (together) are inside this buffer (like searching a string in a buffer).

Have you any idea how can I do that? The programming language is C.

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Just "brute-force" it :)

haystacklen = 4096;
needlelen = 4;

foundat = -1;
index = 0; /* start at a different number if searching for 2nd occurrence */
while (index < haystacklen - needlelen + 1) {
    if ((buffer[index + 0] == 45)
     && (buffer[index + 1] == 34)
     && (buffer[index + 2] == 67)
     && (buffer[index + 3] == 23))
    {
        foundat = index;
    }
    index++;
}
/* foundat has the index of the 1st search bytes or -1 */

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You could also use this much faster version. But you have to keep in mind that this only works for x86 / little endian processors because of the MAKEDWORD macro.

#define MAKEDWORD(a,b,c,d) ((uint32_t) (((uint32_t)a) & 0xFF) | ((((uint32_t)b) & 0xFF) << 8) | ((((uint32_t)c) & 0xFF) << 16) | ((((uint32_t)d) & 0xFF) << 24))
#define NEEDLE (MAKEDWORD(45,34,67,23))

// get the start and end address of the buffer
uint8_t *ptrEndBuffer = ((uint8_t*)buffer) + (4096 - sizeof(NEEDLE));
uint8_t *ptrStartBuffer = (uint8_t*)buffer - 1; // subtract -1 because we also want to get index 0

// while the result is not 0 we are good
while (ptrEndBuffer - ptrStartBuffer) {
    if ((*(uint32_t*)ptrEndBuffer) == NEEDLE) // get an whole integer instead of just one char
        break; // leave the loop if we found a match

    ptrEndBuffer--;
}

// the index will be -1 if we couldn't find a match else we subtract the start address + the 1 we first removed from the end buffer
int index = ((ptrEndBuffer == ptrStartBuffer) ? (-1) : (ptrEndBuffer - (ptrStartBuffer + 1)));