#include <stdio.h>
#include <strings.h>

int
findpos(sentence, word, startpos)
	char *sentence;
	char *word;
	int startpos;
{
	char *p;

	/* find the space after the first word */
	p = strchr(sentence, ' ');

	/* No more spaces means we ran out of words */
	if (p == NULL)
		return(0);

	/* Find position of next word */
	p++;

	/* If first word in the sentence is the one we want, return
	 * its position.*/
	if (strncmp(sentence, word, strlen(word)) == 0)
		return(startpos);
	else
	/* else, call ourselves again, this time with the first word
	 * chopped off from the sentence */
		return(findpos(p, word, startpos + 1));
}

char *s = "foo bar baz bletch";
char *w = "baz";

main()
{
	printf("position: %d\n", findpos(s, w, 1));

	exit(0);
}