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Question

After going through a bunch of threads, I know that I need to use regex.h for using regular expressions in C & C++.

But I was wondering, is there an easier way to search for occurrence of "/" or "" in a string.

// I have a strstr statement like this -
str = strstr(s, "/");

I was wondering if it is possible to change it so that I can search for the first occurrence of a / or \ in a single call to strstr.

Answer

You could try using the strchr function to find the first occurrence of a character:

pos_of_first_slash=strchr(s, '/');

Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of character in the C string str.

The terminating null-character is considered part of the C string. Therefore, it can also be located in order to retrieve a pointer to the end of a string.

Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of character in str. If the character is not found, the function returns a null pointer.