strchr

Locates the first occurrence of a specified character in a string.

Library:LibC
Classification:ANSI
Service:Characters and Strings

Syntax

  #include <string.h> 
   
  char *strchr (
     const char   *s, 
     int           c);

Parameters

s

(IN) Points to the string containing characters for which to search.

c

(IN) Specifies the character for which to search.

Return Values

Returns a pointer to the located character or a NULL pointer if the character does not occur in the string.

Remarks

The strchr function locates the first occurrence of c (converted to a char) in the string pointed to by s. The null-terminating character is considered to be part of the string.

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