useful recursive PHP functions

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(PHP 3>= 3.0.3, PHP 4 )

strspn -- Find length of initial segment matching mask

int strspn ( string str1, string str2)

Returns the length of the initial segment of str1 which consists entirely of characters in str2.

The line of code:


<?php
$var = strspn("42 is the answer, what is the question ...", "1234567890");
?>

will assign 2 to $var, because the string "42" will be the longest segment containing characters from "1234567890".