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StrScan function

In unit sysutils

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

Declaration

pascal
function StrScan(p: PAnsiChar; c: AnsiChar): PAnsiChar; overload

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

Example: ex13

pascal
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.

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.