std::strchr

 

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Defined in header <cstring>
const char* strchr( const char* str, int ch );
char* strchr(       char* str, int ch );

Finds the first occurrence of the character static_cast<char>(ch) in the byte string pointed to by str.

The terminating null character is considered to be a part of the string and can be found if searching for '\0'.

Parameters

str	-	pointer to the null-terminated byte string to be analyzed
ch	-	character to search for

Return value

Pointer to the found character in str, or a null pointer if no such character is found.

Example

Run this code

#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
 
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)) != nullptr)
    {
        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.'

See also

memchr	searches an array for the first occurrence of a character (function)
find	finds the first occurrence of the given substring (public member function of std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Allocator>)
wcschr	finds the first occurrence of a wide character in a wide string (function)
strrchr	finds the last occurrence of a character (function)
strpbrk	finds the first location of any character from a set of separators (function)
C documentation for strchr