strchr

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< c‎ | string‎ | byte
Defined in header <string.h>
char *strchr( const char *str, int ch );

Finds the first occurrence of the character ch in the byte string pointed to by str.

The terminating null character is considered to be a part of the string.

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[edit] Parameters

str - pointer to the null-terminated byte string to be analyzed
ch - character to search for

[edit] Return value

Pointer to the found character in str, or NULL if no such character is found.

[edit] Example

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    char str[] = "Hello World";
    char *ptr = strchr(str, 'W');
    printf("%s", ptr);
}

Output:

World

[edit] See also

finds the last occurrence of a character
(function)
finds the first location of any character in one string, in another string
(function)
C++ documentation for strchr