Searching string for characters

Hi, I've been experimenting some more with strings, I've written some
code where I want to test to see if a certain character char_a is in
the testlist string. Simple enough.
The problem is when testlist contains characters other than letters
and numbers such as comma, full stop and double quotes.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main ()
{
char *testlist = "This is a test,."";
char char_a = 'a';

if (strchr(testlist,char_a) != NULL)
printf("Found in testlist \n");
else
printf("Not found in testlist \n");

return 0;
}

Upon compiling with gcc -Wall -Werror -W -O, I get
searchstring.c: In function `main':
searchstring.c:6: error: missing terminating " character
searchstring.c:7: error: parse error before "char"
searchstring.c:9: error: `char_a' undeclared (first use in this
function)
searchstring.c:9: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
once
searchstring.c:9: error: for each function it appears in.)

The comma, full stop are no problems but it's the extra " that's
causing the issue.
The reason that I have a double quote in my testlist is that I want to
call another function if it's found.
Is it possible to get the extra double quote in my testlist or have I
gone about this the wrong way ?
Thank you for any advice.

Pat

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