From: "Morpheus" <hall AT silo DOT csci DOT unt DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: indexOf function
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:52:56 -0600
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Could I use some pointer arithmetic to find the index once I use strstr? If
so, I'm not exactly sure how I'd do it. Could you demonstrate?

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Morpheus wrote:
>
> > Does the standard library have an indexOf function for char pointers
similar
> > to a static version of java's java.lang.String.indexOf()?
> >
> > As in:
> > /* Returns the index of lookFor in lookIn if lookFor is found in lookIn;
> >  * else returns -1.
>
> The Standard C library includes a function called `strstr' which does the
> same, except that it returns a pointer to the substring if it finds one,
> NULL if not.