strchr

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 character 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