Procedure

   SpiceInt pos_c ( ConstSpiceChar     * str,
                     ConstSpiceChar    * substr,
                     SpiceInt            start  )

Abstract

 
   Find the first occurrence in a string of a substring, starting at 
   a specified location, searching forward. 
 

Required_Reading

 
   SCANNING 
 

Keywords

 
   CHARACTER 
   SEARCH 
   UTILITY 
 

Brief_I/O

 
   VARIABLE  I/O  DESCRIPTION 
   --------  ---  -------------------------------------------------- 
   str        I   Any character string. 
   substr     I   Substring to locate in the character string. 
   start      I   Position to begin looking for substr in str. 
 
   The function returns the index of the first occurrence of substr in
   str at or following index start.
 

Detailed_Input

 
   str        is any character string. 
 
   substr     is a substring to look for in str.  Spaces in substr are
              significant, including trailing blanks.
 
   start      is the position in str to begin looking for substr. start
              may range from 0 to n-1, where n is the number of
              characters in str.
 

Detailed_Output

 
   The function returns the index of the beginning of the first 
   substring of str that begins on or after index start and is equal 
   to substr. If the substring cannot be found after start, the 
   function is returns -1. 
 

Parameters

 
   None. 
 

Exceptions

  
   1) The error SPICE(NULLPOINTER) is signaled if either of 
      the input string pointers is null.

   2) If start is less than 0, the search begins at the first 
      character of the string. 
 
   3) If start is greater than or equal to the length of the string, 
      pos_c returns -1. 

   4) The function returns -1 if either of the input strings is empty.

Files

 
   None. 
 

Particulars

 
   pos_c is case sensitive. 
 
   An entire family of related CSPICE routines

      cpos_c
      cposr_c
      ncpos_c
      ncposr_c 
      pos_c
      posr_c 

   is described in the Required Reading. 
  

Examples

 
   Let string == "AN ANT AND AN ELEPHANT        "
                  012345678901234567890123456789

   Normal (Sequential) Searching: 
   ------------------------------ 

      pos_c ( string, "AN",  0 ) ==  0 
      pos_c ( string, "AN",  2 ) ==  3 
      pos_c ( string, "AN",  5 ) ==  7 
      pos_c ( string, "AN",  9 ) == 11 
      pos_c ( string, "AN", 13 ) == 19 
      pos_c ( string, "AN", 21 ) == -1 

   start out of bounds: 
   -------------------- 

      pos_c ( string, "AN", -6 ) ==  0
      pos_c ( string, "AN", -1 ) ==  0 
      pos_c ( string, "AN", 30 ) == -1 
      pos_c ( string, "AN", 43 ) == -1 

   Significance of Spaces: 
   ----------------------- 

      pos_c ( string, "AN",    0 ) ==  0 
      pos_c ( string, " AN",   0 ) ==  2 
      pos_c ( string, " AN ",  0 ) == 10 
      pos_c ( string, " AN  ", 0 ) == -1 

Restrictions

 
   None. 
 

Literature_References

 
   None. 
 

Author_and_Institution

 
   N.J. Bachman    (JPL) 
   W.L. Taber      (JPL) 
 

Version

 
   -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 15-AUG-2002 (NJB) (WLT)

Index_Entries

 
   position of substring 
 

Link to routine pos_c source file pos_c.c