rindex(3)                           CLIX                           rindex(3)



  NAME

    rindex - Locates the last occurrence of a character in a string

  LIBRARY

    Berkeley Software Distribution Library (libbsd.a)

  SYNOPSIS

    #include <string.h>
    char *rindex(
      char * string ,
      int character );

  PARAMETERS

    string A pointer to a character string

    character
           A character

  DESCRIPTION

    The rindex() function returns a pointer to the last occurrence of the
    character specified by the character parameter (converted to char) in the
    null-terminated string specified by the string parameter.  It returns a
    NULL pointer if character does not occur in the string.  If character is
    '\0', the rindex() function locates the terminating '\0'.

  EXAMPLES

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

    main()
    {
         int comma;
         char *string;
         char *comma_ptr;

         string = "abc, def, hello";
         comma = (int)`,';

         /* This call will return a pointer to the last comma in `string' */
         comma_ptr = rindex(string, comma);

         if (! comma_ptr)
              printf("There is no comma in the string %s\n", string);
         else
              printf("The substring which begins with the last comma is %s\n",



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  rindex(3)                           CLIX                           rindex(3)



                     comma_ptr);

    }


  RETURN VALUES

    Upon successful completion, the rindex() function returns a pointer to the
    last occurrence of the character character in string string. If the
    character specified by parameter character is not found, a NULL pointer is
    returned.

  RELATED INFORMATION

    Functions: index(3), strcat(3), strchr(3), strcmp(3), strcspn(3),
    strcpy(3), strlen(3), strncat(3), strncmp(3), strncpy(3), strpbrk(3),
    strrchr(3), strspn(3)





































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