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# strscan

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

## Declaration

Source position: strings.pp line 68

`function strscan(`
`p: PChar;`
`c: Char`
`):PChar;`

## 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 |  | Search for a null-terminated substring in a null-terminated string

## 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.