Thread: strchr() function

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    strchr() function

    umm guys i don't understand this function....could someone explain to me how it works??
    and how it returns a pointer value...thanks

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    I hate real numbers.

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    umm thanks to that reply....sorry i don't get that....do you know where could i find the details of that function?? i mean i could see all the contents of that function...so that i could understand...thanks a lot...

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    Yes, the GNU Standard C library is open source (glibc) -> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/

    Of course that's just one implementation... other libraries/systems may do it differently but *should* work exactly the same -- according to the standards.

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    It's just a while loop that
    - compares with the character you passed
    - compares with \0
    It stops when it reaches either one.

    What else do you need to know - it's about as basic as it gets when it comes to string processing.

    The only thing lower than this is strlen(), have you figured out that one yet?
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    Example:
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
      const char *s = "Hello world! I am a big string to use to show what strchr() does.";
      const char *t = s;
    
      for(;t; t = strchr(t, ' '))
        printf("&#37;s\n", t);
      return 0;
    }
    What does it look like it is doing?

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    I prefer to write for-loops like this:
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
      const char *s = "Hello world! I am a big string to use to show what strchr() does.";
      const char *t;
    
      for(t = s;t; t = strchr(t, ' '))
        printf("%s\n", t);
      return 0;
    }
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    As do I, however I do like initializing my variables up front so I just ended up writing my code like that. So... in a nutshell, duly noted my nit-picking friend.

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    Thanks a lot.....Thank you3x.....

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    You are welcome, sick. I hope you understand how useful strchr() can be now. Unlike strtok() it doesn't alter your input data. There is a function strrchr() that I use for a lot of things... like parsing out paths. It does the same thing as strchr() but it starts from the end and works its way forward.

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    thanks again master 5001 i really appreciate your help guys.....umm master 5001 do you have some messengers account? cause i really need some expert on c to guide on learning and i respect your knowledge about in c programming...i you would like to share your messenger account you could pm it to me...or if you do not like it's fine to me....thanks again so much

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    Yeah its on my profile thingy. My msn is master5001 _at_ hotmail _dot_ com... I am only publicly posting it on the thread because of the fact that it used to be publicly viewable to anyone... I am not seeing it on my profile anymore, though it is listed on my user control panel. Whatever. My contact info is not top secret.

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    thanks again master5001..i appreciate it

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    The examples will loop forever unless you adjust the token pointer, because it will keep finding the same part of the string. As simple as t++; really.

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