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strchr 

Locates the first occurrence of a specified character within a string.

Syntax 

     #include <string.h.>
     char *strchr(const char *s, int c);

Parameters 

s             A pointer to a null-terminated character string.

c             The value to find in the target string.

Return Values 

x             A character pointer to the first occurrence of c in string
              s.

NULL          The character is not found.

Description 

The strchr function searches the null-terminated string s for the first
occurrence of c converted to type char.)  The terminating null character
is part of the string.

Example 

The following example replaces all occurrences of @ in the array string
with #:

        char *ptr, *strchr(), string[100];
             :
        while((ptr = strchr(string, '@') != NULL)
           *ptr = '#';

See Also 

strrchr(), strpbrk(), ANSI C 4.11.5.2, POSIX.1 8.1

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