strpos
Description
int strpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset])Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string. Unlike the strrpos(), this function can take a full string as the needle parameter and the entire string will be used.
If needle is not found, strpos() will return boolean FALSE .
Warning
This function may return Boolean FALSE , but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE , such as 0 or "". Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.
Example 1. strpos() examples
<?php
$mystring = 'abc';
$findme = 'a';
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);
// Note our use of ===. Simply == would not work as expected
// because the position of 'a' was the 0th (first) character.
if ($pos === false) {
echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
} else {
echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
echo " and exists at position $pos";
}
// We can search for the character, ignoring anything before the offset
$newstring = 'abcdef abcdef';
$pos = strpos($newstring, 'a', 1); // $pos = 7, not 0
?>
If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.
The optional offset parameter allows you to specify which character in haystack to start searching. The position returned is still relative to the the beginning of haystack .
See also strrpos(), stripos(), strripos(), strrchr(), substr(), stristr(), and strstr().
