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# strrchr

strrchr -- Find the last occurrence of a character in a string.

## Description

`string strrchr`(string haystack, string needle);

This function returns the portion of `haystack` which starts at the last occurrence of `needle` and goes until the end of `haystack`.

Returns false if `needle` is not found.

If `needle` contains more than one character, the first is used.

If `needle` is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.

Example 1. Strrchr() example

      1
      2 // get last directory in $PATH
      3 $dir = substr (strrchr ($PATH, ":"), 1);
      4
      5 // get everything after last newline
      6 $text = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";
      7 $last = substr (strrchr ($text, 10), 1 );
      8

See also substr(), stristr(), and strstr().

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