Try strchr(string, '\\') Because the \ is used to trap certain special characters (\n, \r, etc...) you have to specifically doubletrap itself. At 12:10 PM 6/26/01 EDT, you wrote: >How do you search a character array for the \ character? > >I've tried strchr(string, '\'') but that doesn't seem to work. > >Thanks, >Brett > > > >