The C library memchr() function of type void accepts three agruments that searches for the first occurrence of the character c (an unsigned char) in the first n bytes of the string pointed to, by the argument str.
SyntaxFollowing is the syntax of C library memchr() function −
void *memchr(const void *str, int c, size_t n)Parameters
This function accepts the following parameters
str − This is the pointer to the memory block where the search is performed.
c − This is the value to be passed as an int, but the function performs a byte per byte search using the unsigned char conversion of this value.
n − This is the number of bytes to be analyzed.
This function returns a pointer to the matching byte or NULL if the character does not occur in the given memory area.
Example 1Following is the C library program to see the demonstration of memchr() function.
#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main () { const char str[] = "Tutorialspoint"; const char ch = '.'; char *ret; ret = memchr(str, ch, strlen(str)); printf("String after |%c| is - |%s|\n", ch, ret); return(0); }Output
The above code produces the following output−
String after |.| is - |.tutorialspoint.com|Example 2
The program compares two strings using memchr() and determines whether they are equal or not.
#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main() { const char str1[] = "abcdef"; const char ch = 'd'; char* result = (char*)memchr(str1, ch, strlen(str1)); if (result != NULL) { printf("'%c' found at position %ld\n", ch, result - str1); } else { printf("'%c' not found in the string\n", ch); } return 0; }Output
On execution of above code, we get the following output−
'd' found at position 3Example 3
Below the program searches for a specific character in a given string using memchr().
#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main() { const char str[] = "Welcome to India"; const char ch = 't'; char* result = (char*)memchr(str, ch, strlen(str)); if (result != NULL) { printf("'%c' found at position %ld\n", ch, result - str); } else { printf("'%c' not found in the string\n", ch); } return 0; }Output
After executing the above code, we get the following output−
't' found at position 8
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