Learn and Master C Programming - Using 'strstr' to search for a substring inside another string

Learn and Master C Programming - Using 'strstr' to search for a substring inside another string

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The video tutorial covers the use of string search functions, focusing on STRSTR for finding substrings within strings. It explains the case sensitivity of these functions and demonstrates how to implement and test a word count function that counts occurrences of a word in a string. The tutorial concludes with a summary of the function's applications.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the primary purpose of the 'strachn' function discussed in the previous lecture?

To concatenate two strings

To replace a character in a string

To search for a specific character within a string

To find a substring within a string

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does the 'STR' function return if the substring is not found?

An error message

A pointer to the last character

The length of the string

A null value

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does the 'STR' function handle case sensitivity?

It ignores case differences

It treats uppercase and lowercase as the same

It is case sensitive

It converts all characters to lowercase

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the result of searching for 'man' in the string 'many' using the 'STR' function?

It returns null

It returns a pointer to 'n'

It returns a pointer to 'a'

It returns a pointer to 'm'

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the purpose of converting the 'STR' function usage into a separate function?

To reduce memory usage

To improve code readability

To increase execution speed

To count occurrences of a word in a string

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does the function return if either the string or the word is null?

A null pointer

The length of the string

The length of the word

Zero

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does the function handle finding multiple occurrences of a word?

It returns an error if more than one occurrence is found

It only finds the last occurrence

It continues searching until the end of the string

It stops after the first occurrence