strrchr in c

strrchr function in c

strrchr is a built-in function used to search for a last occurrence of the given character in a string.

This function is defined in string.h header file.

This function returns last occurrence of the character in a string else null if character not found.

Prototype

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

Parameters

This function takes one pointer and integer variable as input parameters.

Return value

This function returns last occurrence of a character in a string else null if not found.

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strrchr in c example

//Example program for strrchr
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main()
{
  const char string[]="scholarsoul";
  const char a='o';
  char *res;
  res=strrchr(string,a);
  printf("The last occurrence of given character is %s \n",res);
  return 0;
}  

Output

The last occurrence of given character is oul

Code explanation

The last occurrence of a given character is found by calling strrchr function and result is copied on to console.

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