strscan

Find first occurrence of a character in a null-terminated string.

Declaration

Source position: strings.pp line 68

  function strscan(p: PChar; c: Char) : PChar;

Description

Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the character C in the null-terminated string P. If C does not occur, returns Nil.

Errors

None.

See also

Name Description
StrPos Search for a null-terminated substring in a null-terminated string
StrRScan Find last occurrence of a character in a null-terminated string.

Example

Program Example13;
Uses strings;
{ Program to demonstrate the StrScan and StrRScan functions. }
Const P : PChar = 'This is a PCHAR string.';
      S : Char = 's' ;
begin
  Writeln ('P, starting from first ''s'' : ',StrScan(P,s));
  Writeln ('P, starting from last ''s'' : ',StrRScan(P,s));
end.