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# StrScan

Find first occurrence of a character in a null-terminated string.

## Declaration

Source position: syspchh.inc line 29

`function strscan(`
`p: pchar;`
`c: Char`
`):pchar; overload; function StrScan(`
`P: PWideChar;`
`C: WideChar`
`):PWideChar; overload;`

## Description

Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the character C in the null-terminated string P. If C does not occur, returns Nil.

## Errors

None.

## See also

StrRScan |  | Find last occurrence of a character in a null-terminated string.
StrPos |  | Find position of one null-terminated substring in another.

## Example

    Program Example13;

    Uses strings;

    { Program to demonstrate the StrScan and StrRScan functions. }

    Const P : PChar = 'This is a PCHAR string.';
          S : Char = 's' ;

    begin
      Writeln ('P, starting from first ''s'' : ',StrScan(P,s));
      Writeln ('P, starting from last ''s'' : ',StrRScan(P,s));
    end.