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rindex
—reverse search for character in stringSynopsis
#include <string.h> char * rindex(const char *string, int c);
Description
This function finds the last occurence of c (converted to
a char) in the string pointed to by string (including the
terminating null character).
This function is identical to strrchr
.
Returns
Returns a pointer to the located character, or a null pointer
if c does not occur in string.
Portability
rindex
requires no supporting OS subroutines.