std::strchr
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Defined in header
<cstring>
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const char* strchr( const char* str, int ch );
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char* strchr( char* str, int ch );
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Finds the first occurrence of the character static_cast<char>(ch) in the byte string pointed to by str
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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 a null pointer if no such character is found.
[edit] Example
Run this code
#include <iostream> #include <cstring> int main() { const char *str = "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."; char target = 'T'; const char *result = str; while ((result = std::strchr(result, target)) != NULL) { std::cout << "Found '" << target << "' starting at '" << result << "'\n"; // Increment result, otherwise we'll find target at the same location ++result; } }
Output:
Found 'T' starting at 'Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.' Found 'T' starting at 'There is no try.'
[edit] See also
find characters in the string (public member function of std::basic_string )
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finds the first occurrence of a wide character in a wide string (function) |
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finds the last occurrence of a character (function) |
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finds the first location of any character from a set of separators (function) |
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C documentation for strchr
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