I would like to know the difference between the two different uses. I believe the difference in some what very subtle.
This is an explanation taken from the IBM reference manual. However maybe my english is bad, I just can't visualize the difference.
Maybe showing me an example of both cases would help me understand this better.
Here is the explanation from IBM :
The strchr subroutine returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the character specified by the Character (converted to an unsigned character) parameter in the string pointed to by the String parameter. A null pointer is returned if the character does not occur in the string. The null byte that terminates a string is considered to be part of the string.
The strrchr subroutine returns a pointer to the last occurrence of the character specified by the Character (converted to a character) parameter in the string pointed to by the String parameter. A null pointer is returned if the character does not occur in the string. The null byte that terminates a string is considered to be part of the string.