.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:13:52 1993, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.TH INDEX 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH INDEX 3 2011-09-21 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
index, rindex \- locate character in string
.SH SYNOPSIS
function returns a pointer to the last occurrence
of the character \fIc\fP in the string \fIs\fP.
.PP
-The terminating NULL character is considered to be a part of the
+The terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq) is considered to be a part of the
strings.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The