STRCHR(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRCHR(3)

strchr, strrchr - locate character in string

#include <string.h>

char *strchr(const char *s, int c);

char *strrchr(const char *s, int c);

The strchr() function returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the character c in the string s.

The strrchr() function returns a pointer to the last occurrence of the character c in the string s.

Here "character" means "byte"; these functions do not work with wide or multi-byte characters.

The strchr() and strrchr() functions return a pointer to the matched character or NULL if the character is not found.

SVID 3, POSIX, 4.3BSD, ISO 9899

index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), strtok(3), wcschr(3), wcsrchr(3)

1993-04-12

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