.\"search for substrings in a string .TH strsrch 3 "5 Sep 1994" MudOS "LPC Library Functions" .SH NAME strsrch() - search for substrings in a string .SH SYNOPSIS .nf int strsrch( string str, string substr | int char, int flag ); .SH DESCRIPTION strsrch() searches for the first occurance of the string `substr' in the string `str'. The last occurance of `substr' can be found by passing `-1' as the 3rd argument (which is optional). If the second argument is an integer, that character is found (a la C's strchr()/strrchr().) The empty string or null value cannot be searched for. .SH RETURN VALUE The integer offset of the first (last) match is returned. -1 is returned if there was no match, or an error occurred (bad args, etc). .SH SEE ALSO explode(3), sscanf(3), replace_string(3), regexp(3)