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34.Dd $Mdocdate: November 24 2015 $
35.Dt STRRCHR 3
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm strrchr ,
39.Nm rindex
40.Nd locate last occurrence of a character in a string
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.In string.h
43.Ft char *
44.Fn strrchr "const char *s" "int c"
45.In strings.h
46.Ft char *
47.Fn rindex "const char *s" "int c"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Fn strrchr
51function locates the last occurrence of the character
52.Fa c
53in the string
54.Fa s .
55The terminating
56.Tn NUL
57character is considered part of the string.
58If
59.Fa c
60is
61.Ql \e0 ,
62.Fn strrchr
63locates the terminating
64.Ql \e0 .
65.Pp
66The
67.Fn rindex
68function is an old synonym for
69.Fn strrchr .
70.Sh RETURN VALUES
71The
72.Fn strrchr
73function returns a pointer to the located character or
74.Dv NULL
75if the character does not appear in the string.
76.Sh EXAMPLES
77After the following call to
78.Fn strrchr ,
79.Va p
80will point to the string
81.Qq obar :
82.Bd -literal -offset indent
83char *p;
84char *s = "foobar";
85
86p = strrchr(s, 'o');
87.Ed
88.Sh SEE ALSO
89.Xr memchr 3 ,
90.Xr strchr 3 ,
91.Xr strcspn 3 ,
92.Xr strpbrk 3 ,
93.Xr strsep 3 ,
94.Xr strspn 3 ,
95.Xr strstr 3 ,
96.Xr strtok 3 ,
97.Xr wcsrchr 3
98.Sh STANDARDS
99The
100.Fn strrchr
101function conforms to
102.St -ansiC .
103.Pp
104The
105.Fn rindex
106function is deprecated and shouldn't be used in new code.
107.Sh HISTORY
108The
109.Fn rindex
110function first appeared in
111.At v7 .
112The
113.Fn strrchr
114function first appeared in
115.At III
116and was reimplemented for
117.Bx 4.3 Tahoe .
118