strchr, strrchr, strchrnul - locate character in string
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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│ strchr(), strrchr(), strchrnul() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
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Description
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 multibyte characters.
History
strchr()
strrchr()
POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
strchrnul()
glibc 2.1.1, FreeBSD 10, NetBSD 8.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
strchr, strrchr, strchrnul - locate character in string
Return Value
The strchr() and strrchr() functions return a pointer to the matched character or NULL if the character
is not found. The terminating null byte is considered part of the string, so that if c is specified as
'\0', these functions return a pointer to the terminator.
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.
See Also
memchr(3), string(3), strlen(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), strtok(3), wcschr(3), wcsrchr(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-06-15 strchr(3)
Standards
strchr()
strrchr()
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
strchrnul()
GNU.
Synopsis
#include<string.h>char*strchr(constchar*s,intc);char*strrchr(constchar*s,intc);#define_GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include<string.h>char*strchrnul(constchar*s,intc);
