dixon@ihuxa.UUCP (09/18/83)
Can someone tell me what rindex() does and what it returns when it fails? Is strchr() or strrchr() the BTL UNIX equivalent for rindex()? Thank you in advance. d a dixon ihuxa!dixon BTL - IH (312) 979-6844
gwyn@brl-vld@sri-unix.UUCP (09/21/83)
From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@brl-vld> strchr() is the new name for index(), and strrchr() is the new name for rindex(). The names were changed somewhere before UNIX System III in order to give all the string(3) functions names starting with "str". strrchr() searches for the rightmost occurrence of the specified character in a null-terminated string and returns a pointer to the found character, or NULL if the character is not in the string.