Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!ge-dab!codas!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ltoa
Message-ID: <117@ateng.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 09:31:30 EST
Article-I.D.: ateng.117
Posted: Wed Dec  2 09:31:30 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 05:41:58 EST
References: <10594@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
Lines: 14

In article <10594@brl-adm.ARPA>,
	PEPRBV%CFAAMP.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU (Bob Babcock) writes:
>rindex(string,cc) is the same as strrchr, finds last occurrence of
>character cc in string.

Except for the fine point that strchr() and strrchr(), when given a second
parameter of zero, they return the address of the string's terminating NUL
('\0').  I don't think that this behavior can be expected of index() and
rindex().
-- 
Chip Salzenberg         "chip@ateng.UUCP"  or  "{codas,uunet}!ateng!chip"
A T Engineering         My employer's opinions are not mine, but these are.
   "Gentlemen, your work today has been outstanding.  I intend to recommend
   you all for promotion -- in whatever fleet we end up serving."   - JTK