strchr() function in C is used to search the stated character in a string.
It searches the string for the character and stops when the first time the character is found. And if the string needs to be printed, only the character starting from the searched character to the end is printed.
The strchr() function is defined in the header file string.h.
It takes two arguments, first the string name and another is the character you need to search in the string and is written as follows.
strchr(string_name, search_Char);
C Program for strchr() function
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main() { char str[] = "The Website is simple2code.com"; printf("Searched Character is s, So:\n%s", strchr(str, 's')); return 0; } |
Output:
Searched Character is s, So:
site is simple2code.com
First-time s is found in ‘website’, so the character after s that is “site is simple2code.com” is printed.
C String – strrchr() function
strrchr() function is also the same as the strchr() function only difference is that it starts the search in reverse order and stops when the searched character is found.
C Program for strrchr() function
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main() { char str[] = "The Website is simple2code.com"; printf("Searched Character is s, So:\n%s", strrchr(str, 's')); return 0; } |
Output:
Searched Character is s, So:
simple2code.com
Searching from the reverse order the program finds the first s ‘simple2code.com’, so the character after s that is “simple2code.com” is printed.