Find Character String In Binary Data

Question

I have a binary file I've loaded using an NSData object. Is there a way to locate a sequence of characters, 'abcd' for example, within that binary data and return the offset without converting the entire file to a string? Seems like it should be a simple answer, but I'm not sure how to do it. Any ideas?

I'm doing this on iOS 3 so I don't have -rangeOfData:options:range: available.

I'm going to award this one to Sixteen Otto for suggesting strstr. I went and found the source code for the C function strstr and rewrote it to work on a fixed length Byte array--which incidentally is different from a char array as it is not null terminated. Here is the code I ended up with:

- (Byte*)offsetOfBytes:(Byte*)bytes inBuffer:(const Byte*)buffer ofLength:(int)len;
{
    Byte *cp = bytes;
    Byte *s1, *s2;

    if ( !*buffer )
        return bytes;

    int i = 0;
    for (i=0; i < len; ++i)
    {
        s1 = cp;
        s2 = (Byte*)buffer;

        while ( *s1 && *s2 && !(*s1-*s2) )
            s1++, s2++;

        if (!*s2)
            return cp;

        cp++;
    }

    return NULL;
}

This returns a pointer to the first occurrence of bytes, the thing I'm looking for, in buffer, the byte array that should contain bytes.

I call it like this:

// data is the NSData object
const Byte *bytes = [data bytes];
Byte* index = [self offsetOfBytes:tag inBuffer:bytes ofLength:[data length]];