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• strchr will find the first matching character in a string.
  

• strrchr will find the last matching character in a string.

The functions will return a pointer to the character or NULL if the character is not found.

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Library: string.h
Prototype: char * strchr(const char *string, int character);
Syntax:	 int character='w';
	 char *string="red dwarf";
 if(strchr(string, character)) puts("Character found");

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See Also:

strstr which looks for a sub-string in a string.

strpbrk

index and rindex do the same as strchr and strrchr but are non standard.

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Example program (from Dave Doolin).

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Martin Leslie