strrchr

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Defined in header <string.h>
char * strrchr ( const char * str, int ch ) ;
(1)
/*QChar*/ * strrchr ( /*QChar*/ * str, int ch ) ;
(2) (since C23)
1) Finds the last occurrence of ch (after conversion to char as if by ( char ) ch ) in the null-terminated byte string pointed to by str (each character interpreted as unsigned char ). The terminating null character is considered to be a part of the string and can be found if searching for ' \0 ' .
2) Type-generic function equivalent to (1) . Let T be an unqualified character object type.
  • If str is of type const T * , the return type is const char * .
  • Otherwise, if str is of type T * , the return type is char * .
  • Otherwise, the behavior is undefined.
If a macro definition of each of these generic functions is suppressed to access an actual function (e.g. if ( strrchr ) or a function pointer is used), the actual function declaration (1) becomes visible.

The behavior is undefined if str is not a pointer to a null-terminated byte string.

Parameters

str - pointer to the null-terminated byte string to be analyzed
ch - character to search for

Return value

Pointer to the found character in str , or null pointer if no such character is found.

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    char szSomeFileName[] = "foo/bar/foobar.txt";
    char* pLastSlash = strrchr(szSomeFileName, '/');
    char* pszBaseName = pLastSlash ? pLastSlash + 1 : szSomeFileName;
    printf("Base Name: %s", pszBaseName);
}

Output:

Base Name: foobar.txt

References

  • C23 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2024):
  • 7.24.5.5 The strrchr function (p: TBD)
  • C17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018):
  • 7.24.5.5 The strrchr function (p: TBD)
  • C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
  • 7.24.5.5 The strrchr function (p: 368-369)
  • C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
  • 7.21.5.5 The strrchr function (p: 331)
  • C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):
  • 4.11.5.5 The strrchr function

See also

finds the first occurrence of a character
(function)
finds the first location of any character in one string, in another string
(function)