strrchr, wcsrchr, _mbsrchr

strrchr, wcsrchr, _mbsrchr

Scan a string for the last occurrence of a character.

char *strrchr( const char *string, int c );

char *wcsrchr( const wchar_t *string, int c );

int _mbsrchr( const unsigned char *string, unsigned int c );

Routine	Required Header	Compatibility
strrchr	<string.h>	ANSI, Win 95, Win NT
wcsrchr	<string.h> or <wchar.h>	ANSI, Win 95, Win NT
_mbsrchr	<mbstring.h>	Win 95, Win NT

For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.

Libraries

LIBC.LIB	Single thread static library, retail version
LIBCMT.LIB	Multithread static library, retail version
MSVCRT.LIB	Import library for MSVCRT.DLL, retail version

Return Value

Each of these functions returns a pointer to the last occurrence of c in string, or NULL if c is not found.

Parameters

string

Null-terminated string to search

c

Character to be located

Remarks

The strrchr function finds the last occurrence of c (converted to char) in string. The search includes the terminating null character.

wcsrchr and _mbsrchr are wide-character and multibyte-character versions of strrchr. The arguments and return value of wcsrchr are wide-character strings; those of _mbsrchr are multibyte-character strings. These three functions behave identically otherwise.

Generic-Text Routine Mappings

TCHAR.H Routine	_UNICODE & _MBCS Not Defined	_MBCS Defined	_UNICODE Defined
_tcsrchr	strrchr	_mbsrchr	wcsrchr

Example

/* STRCHR.C: This program illustrates searching for a character
 * with strchr (search forward) or strrchr (search backward).
 */

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int  ch = 'r';

char string[] = "The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox";
char fmt1[] =   "         1         2         3         4         5";
char fmt2[] =   "12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890";

void main( void )
{
   char *pdest;
   int result;

   printf( "String to be searched: /n/t/t%s/n", string );
   printf( "/t/t%s/n/t/t%s/n/n", fmt1, fmt2 );
   printf( "Search char:/t%c/n", ch );

   /* Search forward. */
   pdest = strchr( string, ch );
   result = pdest - string + 1;
   if( pdest != NULL )
      printf( "Result:/tfirst %c found at position %d/n/n", 
              ch, result );
   else
      printf( "Result:/t%c not found/n" );

   /* Search backward. */
   pdest = strrchr( string, ch );
   result = pdest - string + 1;
   if( pdest != NULL )
      printf( "Result:/tlast %c found at position %d/n/n", ch, result );
   else
      printf( "Result:/t%c not found/n" );
}

Output

String to be searched: 
      The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox
               1         2         3         4         5
      12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

Search char:   r
Result:   first r found at position 12

Result:   last r found at position 30