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strchr

Find the first occurrence of a character in a string

Calling Sequence

res = strchr(haystack,char)

Arguments

haystack

A character string or matrix of character strings

char

a character.

res

A character string or matrix of character strings

Description

res = strchr(haystack,char) returns the first occurrence of char in the string haystack.

char must contain only one string or as many strings as in haystack (each one being one-character-long).

Examples

strchr('This is a sample string','s')
strchr(['This is a sample string','in scilab'],'s')
strchr(['This is a sample string','in scilab'],['s','a'])

See Also

  • strrchr — Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
  • strstr — Locate substring
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