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# strpos

Find position of one null-terminated substring in another.

## Declaration

Source position: syspchh.inc line 34

`function strpos(`
`str1: pchar;`
`str2: pchar`
`):pchar; function strpos(`
`str1: pwidechar;`
`str2: pwidechar`
`):pwidechar;`

## Description

Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of S2 in S1. If S2 does not occur in S1, returns Nil.

## Errors

None.

## See also

StrScan |  | Find first occurrence of a character in a null-terminated string.
StrRScan |  | Find last occurrence of a character in a null-terminated string.

## Example

    Program Example15;

    Uses strings;

    { Program to demonstrate the StrPos function. }

    Const P : PChar = 'This is a PChar string.';
          S : Pchar = 'is';
    begin
      Writeln ('Position of ''is'' in P : ',sizeint(StrPos(P,S))-sizeint(P));
    end.

Documentation generated on: May 14 2021