If you're not looking to duplicate the rest of the string, but instead just want the offset, in the spirit of the str*pos() functions, use strcspn()
strpbrk
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
strpbrk — Search a string for any of a set of characters
Description
strpbrk() searches the string
string for a characters.
Parameters
-
string -
The string where
charactersis looked for. -
characters -
This parameter is case sensitive.
Return Values
Returns a string starting from the character found, or false if it is
not found.
Examples
Example #1 strpbrk() example
<?php
$text = 'This is a Simple text.';
// this echoes "is is a Simple text." because 'i' is matched first
echo strpbrk($text, 'mi');
// this echoes "Simple text." because chars are case sensitive
echo strpbrk($text, 'S');
?>See Also
- strpos() - Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string
- strstr() - Find the first occurrence of a string
- preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match
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User Contributed Notes 2 notes
devnuhl ¶
10 years ago
guillaume dot barranco at free dot fr ¶
7 years ago
A little modification to Evan's code to use an array for the second parameter :
<?php
function strpbrkpos($s, $accept) {
$r = FALSE;
$t = 0;
$i = 0;
$accept_l = count($accept);
for ( ; $i < $accept_l ; $i++ )
if ( ($t = strpos($s, $accept[$i])) !== FALSE )
if ( ($r === FALSE) || ($t < $r) )
$r = $t;
return $r;
}
?>
