String.indexOf function in C

Question

Is there a C library function that will return the index of a character in a string?

So far, all I\'ve found are functions like strstr that will return the found cha

Answer 1

You can use strstr to accomplish what you want. Example:

char *a = "Hello World!";
char *b = strstr(a, "World");

int position = b - a;

printf("the offset is %i\n", position);

This produces the result:

the offset is 6