Search for an occurrence of a character.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

#include <string.h>

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

Parameters for this facility are:

s	const char *	The string to search
c	int	The char to search for

The strchr() function searches for the first occurrence of the character c in the character array pointed to by s. The s argument must point to a null terminated character array.

strchr() returns a pointer to the successfully located character. If it fails, strchr() returns a null pointer (NULL).

"memchr"

"strrchr"

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	static char s[] = "tree * tomato eggplant garlic";
	char *strptr;

	strptr = strchr(s, '*');
	puts(strptr);

	return 0;	
}
Output:
* tomato eggplant garlic





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