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

NAME         top

       strchr, strrchr, strchrnul - locate character in string

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <string.h>

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

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

       #define _GNU_SOURCE
       #include <string.h>

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

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.

       The strchrnul() function is like strchr() except that if c is not found in s,
       then it returns a pointer to the null byte at the end of s, rather than NULL.

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

RETURN VALUE         top

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

       The strchrnul() function returns a pointer to the matched character, or a
       pointer to the null byte at the end of s (i.e., s+strlen(s)) if the character
       is not found.

VERSIONS         top

       strchrnul() first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.1.

CONFORMING TO         top

       strchr() and strrchr() are in SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.  strchrnul() is a GNU
       extension.

SEE ALSO         top

       index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strlen(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3), strspn(3),
       strstr(3), strtok(3), wcschr(3), wcsrchr(3), feature_test_macros(7)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found
       at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU                                   2008-08-11                            STRCHR(3)