Re: strstr and strchr

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:30, Fundu <[email protected]> wrote:
> looks strange to me
> if i look for a str using strstr it gives me the starting index of the string. so let say if i'm looking for "firstName" in "<Info firstName=\"sam\" lastName=\"Smith\" />" using
> strstr(ptr, "firstName");  i would get the pointer pointing to the f in firstName.
>
>
> whereas if i use strchr and using a slight variation of the string mentioned above(suing ' instead of ")  "<Info firstName='sam' lastName='Smith'/>"
> strchr(ptr, "'") returns a pointer pointing after the '
strchr() takes a int as second argument, not a 'char *', I suggest trying:

strchr(ptr, '\'')

> so a printf("[%s]\n", strchr(ptr, "'"));
> would print [  lastName='Smith'/>]
>
> which doesn't make sense to me.
>
> can someone shed some light. TIA !