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strstr

Locate substring

Calling Sequence

res = strstr(haystack,needle)

Arguments

haystack

A character string or matrix of character strings

needle

A character string or matrix of character strings

res

A character string or matrix of character strings

Description

res = strstr(haystack,needle) Returns a string matrix starting from where the first occurrence of needle in haystack to the end of haystack, or '' if there needle is not part of haystack.

Examples

strstr('This is a simple string','simple')
strstr('This is a simple string','sample')
strstr(['This is a simple string','in scilab'],'is')
strstr(['This is a sample string','in scilab'],['a','scilab'])

See Also

  • strrchr — Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
  • strchr — Find the first occurrence of a character in a string
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