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1.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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25.\" References consulted:
26.\" Linux libc source code
27.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
28.\" 386BSD man pages
29.\" Modified Mon Apr 12 12:51:24 1993, David Metcalfe
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30.\" 2006-05-19, Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com>
31.\" Document strchrnul(3).
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9ba01802 33.TH STRCHR 3 2019-03-06 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
fea681da 34.SH NAME
e9d27e13 35strchr, strrchr, strchrnul \- locate character in string
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36.SH SYNOPSIS
37.nf
38.B #include <string.h>
68e4db0a 39.PP
fea681da 40.BI "char *strchr(const char *" s ", int " c );
68e4db0a 41.PP
fea681da 42.BI "char *strrchr(const char *" s ", int " c );
f90f031e 43
b80f966b 44.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
e9d27e13 45.B #include <string.h>
68e4db0a 46.PP
7145b9a9 47.BI "char *strchrnul(const char *" s ", int " c );
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48.fi
49.SH DESCRIPTION
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50The
51.BR strchr ()
52function returns a pointer to the first occurrence
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53of the character
54.I c
55in the string
56.IR s .
fea681da 57.PP
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58The
59.BR strrchr ()
60function returns a pointer to the last occurrence
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61of the character
62.I c
63in the string
64.IR s .
fea681da 65.PP
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66The
67.BR strchrnul ()
68function is like
69.BR strchr ()
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70except that if
71.I c
72is not found in
73.IR s ,
c13182ef 74then it returns a pointer to the null byte
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75at the end of
76.IR s ,
77rather than NULL.
e9d27e13 78.PP
c65433e6 79Here "character" means "byte"; these functions do not work with
ae03dc66 80wide or multibyte characters.
47297adb 81.SH RETURN VALUE
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82The
83.BR strchr ()
84and
85.BR strrchr ()
86functions return a pointer to
fea681da 87the matched character or NULL if the character is not found.
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88The terminating null byte is considered part of the string,
89so that if
90.I c
d1a71985 91is specified as \(aq\e0\(aq,
2c4d293c 92these functions return a pointer to the terminator.
847e0d88 93.PP
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94The
95.BR strchrnul ()
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96function returns a pointer to the matched character,
97or a pointer to the null byte at the end of
46d8df8e 98.I s
51700fd7 99(i.e.,
46d8df8e 100.IR "s+strlen(s)" )
e9d27e13 101if the character is not found.
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102.SH VERSIONS
103.BR strchrnul ()
104first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.1.
5745405b 105.SH ATTRIBUTES
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106For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
107.BR attributes (7).
108.TS
109allbox;
110lbw32 lb lb
111l l l.
112Interface Attribute Value
113T{
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114.BR strchr (),
115.BR strrchr (),
5745405b 116.BR strchrnul ()
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117T} Thread safety MT-Safe
118.TE
47297adb 119.SH CONFORMING TO
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120.BR strchr (),
121.BR strrchr ():
122POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
847e0d88 123.PP
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124.BR strchrnul ()
125is a GNU extension.
47297adb 126.SH SEE ALSO
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127.BR index (3),
128.BR memchr (3),
129.BR rindex (3),
d095200e 130.BR string (3),
e9d27e13 131.BR strlen (3),
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132.BR strpbrk (3),
133.BR strsep (3),
134.BR strspn (3),
135.BR strstr (3),
136.BR strtok (3),
137.BR wcschr (3),
0a4f8b7b 138.BR wcsrchr (3)