Why does my code give a weird o/p in this following condition?

Question

https://code.sololearn.com/cmkYH9Hm4cmY/?ref=app
Here if I give
eg: string1 : Tiger
string2 : Lion
char1 for string1 : a
char2 for string2 : n
It gives "Char1 not found in string1" but gives some weird number for char2 only on this condition where char1 is not present in string1
And char2 is present in the last index of string2.

Why does this happen?

Answer 1

you are using same p and a after testing for q!=NULL

check if u really want p-a+1 in both printf statements. i dont think you do.

Answer 2

NotAPythonNinja oh thanks, didn't notice that. Now I get it correctly 👍

Answer 3

Arturop that was a big typo, I didn't notice it. Thanks for pointing it out.