strchr, wcschr, _mbschr

Find a character in a string.

char*strchr(constchar*string,intc**);**

wchar_t*wcschr(constwchar_t*string,wint_tc**);**

unsignedchar*_mbschr(constunsignedchar*string,unsignedintc**);**

Routine	Required Header	Compatibility
strchr	<string.h>	ANSI, Win 95, Win NT
wcschr	<string.h> or <wchar.h>	ANSI, Win 95, Win NT
_mbschr	<mbstring.h>	Win 95, Win NT

For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.

Libraries

LIBC.LIB	Single thread static library, retail version
LIBCMT.LIB	Multithread static library, retail version
MSVCRT.LIB	Import library for MSVCRT.DLL, retail version

Return Value

Each of these functions returns a pointer to the first occurrence of c in string, or NULL if c is not found.

Parameters

string

Null-terminated source string

c

Character to be located

Remarks

The strchr function finds the first occurrence of c in string, or it returns NULL if c is not found. The null-terminating character is included in the search.

wcschr and _mbschr are wide-character and multibyte-character versions of strchr. The arguments and return value of wcschr are wide-character strings; those of _mbschr are multibyte-character strings. _mbschr recognizes multibyte-character sequences according to the multibyte code page currently in use. These three functions behave identically otherwise.

Generic-Text Routine Mappings

TCHAR.H Routine	_UNICODE & _MBCS Not Defined	_MBCS Defined	_UNICODE Defined
_tcschr	strchr	_mbschr	wcschr

Example

/* STRCHR.C: This program illustrates searching for a character
 * with strchr (search forward) or strrchr (search backward).
 */

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

int  ch = 'r';

char string[] = "The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox";
char fmt1[] =   "         1         2         3         4         5";
char fmt2[] =   "12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890";

void main( void )
{
   char *pdest;
   int result;

   printf( "String to be searched: \n\t\t%s\n", string );
   printf( "\t\t%s\n\t\t%s\n\n", fmt1, fmt2 );
   printf( "Search char:\t%c\n", ch );

   /* Search forward. */
   pdest = strchr( string, ch );
   result = pdest - string + 1;
   if( pdest != NULL )
      printf( "Result:\tfirst %c found at position %d\n\n",
              ch, result );
   else
      printf( "Result:\t%c not found\n" );

   /* Search backward. */
   pdest = strrchr( string, ch );
   result = pdest - string + 1;
   if( pdest != NULL )
      printf( "Result:\tlast %c found at position %d\n\n", ch, result );
   else
      printf( "Result:\t%c not found\n" );
}

Output

String to be searched:
      The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox
               1         2         3         4         5
      12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

Search char:   r
Result:   first r found at position 12

Result:   last r found at position 30

String Manipulation Routines

See Also   strcspn, strncat, strncmp, strncpy, _strnicmp, strpbrk, strrchr, strstr