Purpose: Practice working with pointers Practice working with the heap

Goal:

Create a string function that identifies the location of a character within a string. The FIND function should locate character within a text string, and return the number of first location of the character within the text string.

Your program has the following restrictions. - The text function should take a pointer to a char for the string. - You may not use any string functions or cstring functions. If you need these functions, you should write them yourself. - You may only use pointers / pointer arithmetic to access your strings (hint: I wrote my own strlen and strcopy functions using pointer arithmetic.) - The FIND function should be case sensative. - Your FIND function should return a -1 if the character isn't found. - Your FIND function should handle an empty string. - You no hardcoded string sizes. This program should work for any string. - Use human indexed format not C++ indexing. So the first character is position 1. - You clean your heap up before you exit the program. No memory leaks. 

Output Format

-- input string -- char is in position nn

Testing Data

Run your program with the following test data:

String: "I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth." Characters: i, I, w, z, r

String: "" Character: y

Sample Output

Given the test set above, the output would be:

-- I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. -- i is in position 13 I is in position 1 w is in position 3 z is in position -1 r is in position 9

-- -- y is in position -1