strrchr

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

strrchr — Encuentra la última aparición de un caracter en un string

Descripción

strrchr(string $haystack, mixed $needle): string

Esta función devuelve la porción de haystack la cual comienza en la última aparición de needle y que va hasta el final de haystack.

Parámetros

haystack

El string en donde buscar

needle

Si needle contiene más de un caracter, sólo se utiliza el primero. Este comportamiento es diferente que el de strstr().

Si needle no es una cadena, se convierte a un entero y se aplica como el valor ordinal de un carácter. Este comportamiento está obsoleto a partir de PHP 7.3.0, por lo que su uso está totalmente desaconsejado. Dependiendo del comportamiento previsto, needle deberá ser convertido explícitamente a string, o realizar una llamada explícita a chr().

Valores devueltos

Esta función devuelve la porción de string o false si no se encuentra needle.

Historial de cambios

Versión	Descripción
4.3.0	Ahora esta función es segura a nivel binario.

Ejemplos

Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo de strrchr()

<?php
// obtiene el último directorio en $PATH
$dir = substr(strrchr($PATH, ":"), 1);

// obtiene todo lo que está después de la última nueva línea
$text = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";
$last = substr(strrchr($text, 10), 1 );
?>

Notas

Nota: Esta función es segura binariamente.

Ver también

strstr() - Encuentra la primera aparición de un string
strrpos() - Encuentra la posición de la última aparición de un substring en un string

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User Contributed Notes 10 notes

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matthewkastor at live dot com ¶

13 years ago


<?php

/**

 * Removes the preceeding or proceeding portion of a string

 * relative to the last occurrence of the specified character.

 * The character selected may be retained or discarded.

 * 

 * Example usage:

 * <code>

 * $example = 'http://example.com/path/file.php';

 * $cwd_relative[] = cut_string_using_last('/', $example, 'left', true);

 * $cwd_relative[] = cut_string_using_last('/', $example, 'left', false);

 * $cwd_relative[] = cut_string_using_last('/', $example, 'right', true);

 * $cwd_relative[] = cut_string_using_last('/', $example, 'right', false);

 * foreach($cwd_relative as $string) {

 *     echo "$string <br>".PHP_EOL;

 * }

 * </code>

 * 

 * Outputs:

 * <code>

 * http://example.com/path/

 * http://example.com/path

 * /file.php

 * file.php

 * </code>

 * 

 * @param string $character the character to search for.

 * @param string $string the string to search through.

 * @param string $side determines whether text to the left or the right of the character is returned.

 * Options are: left, or right.

 * @param bool $keep_character determines whether or not to keep the character.

 * Options are: true, or false.

 * @return string

 */

function cut_string_using_last($character, $string, $side, $keep_character=true) {

    $offset = ($keep_character ? 1 : 0);

    $whole_length = strlen($string);

    $right_length = (strlen(strrchr($string, $character)) - 1);

    $left_length = ($whole_length - $right_length - 1);

    switch($side) {

        case 'left':

            $piece = substr($string, 0, ($left_length + $offset));

            break;

        case 'right':

            $start = (0 - ($right_length + $offset));

            $piece = substr($string, $start);

            break;

        default:

            $piece = false;

            break;

    }

    return($piece);

}

?>

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sekati at gmail dot com ¶

18 years ago


just a small addition to carlos dot lage at gmail dot com note which makes it a bit more useful and flexible:

<?php
// return everything up to last instance of needle
// use $trail to include needle chars including and past last needle 
function reverse_strrchr($haystack, $needle, $trail) {
    return strrpos($haystack, $needle) ? substr($haystack, 0, strrpos($haystack, $needle) + $trail) : false;
}
// usage:
$ns = (reverse_strrchr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_URI"], "/", 0));
$ns2 = (reverse_strrchr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_URI"], "/", 1));
echo($ns . "<br>" . $ns2);
?>

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dchris1 at bigpond dot net dot au ¶

20 years ago


The function provided by marcokonopacki at hotmail dot com isn't really a reverse-version of strrchr(), rather a reverse version of strchr(). It returns everything from the start of $haystack up to the FIRST instance of the $needle. This is basically a reverse of the behavior which you expect from strchr(). A reverse version of strrchr() would return everything in $haystack up to the LAST instance of $needle, eg:

<?php
// reverse strrchr() - PHP v4.0b3 and above
function reverse_strrchr($haystack, $needle)
{
    $pos = strrpos($haystack, $needle);
    if($pos === false) {
        return $haystack;
    }
    return substr($haystack, 0, $pos + 1);
}
?>

Note that this function will need to be modified slightly to work with pre 4.0b3 versions of PHP due to the return type of strrpos() ('0' is not necessarily 'false'). Check the documentation on strrpos() for more info. 

A function like this can be useful for extracting the path to a script, for example:

<?
$string = "/path/to/the/file/filename.php";

echo reverse_strrchr($string, '/'); // will echo "/path/to/the/file/"
?>

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Primo Anderson Do S?tio ¶

19 years ago


$filename = 'strrchr_test.php';
print strrchr( $filename, '.' );

Result:
.php

$other_filename = 'strrchr_test.asp.php';
print  strrchr( $other_filename, '.' );

Result:
.php

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readless at gmx dot net ¶

18 years ago


to: repley at freemail dot it

the code works very well, but as i was trying to cut script names (e.g.: $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] => /index.php, cut the string at "/" and return "index.php") it returned nothing (false). i've modified your code and now it works also if the needle is the first char.
- regards from germany

<?php
//strxchr(string haystack, string needle [, bool int leftinclusive [, bool int rightinclusive ]])
function strxchr($haystack, $needle, $l_inclusive = 0, $r_inclusive = 0){
   if(strrpos($haystack, $needle)){
       //Everything before last $needle in $haystack.
       $left =  substr($haystack, 0, strrpos($haystack, $needle) + $l_inclusive);
 
       //Switch value of $r_inclusive from 0 to 1 and viceversa.
       $r_inclusive = ($r_inclusive == 0) ? 1 : 0;
 
       //Everything after last $needle in $haystack.
       $right =  substr(strrchr($haystack, $needle), $r_inclusive);
 
       //Return $left and $right into an array.
       return array($left, $right);
   } else {
       if(strrchr($haystack, $needle)) return array('', substr(strrchr($haystack, $needle), $r_inclusive));
       else return false;
   }
}
?>

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freakinunreal at hotmail dot com ¶

18 years ago


to marcokonopacki at hotmail dot com.

I had to make a slight change in your function for it to return the complete needle inclusive.

// Reverse search of strrchr.
function strrrchr($haystack,$needle)
{

   // Returns everything before $needle (inclusive).
   //return substr($haystack,0,strpos($haystack,$needle)+1);
   // becomes
   return substr($haystack,0,strpos($haystack,$needle)+strlen($needle));
}

Note: the +1 becomes +strlen($needle)

Otherwise it only returns the first character in needle backwards.

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marcokonopacki at hotmail dot com ¶

21 years ago


<?

// Reverse search of strrchr.
function strrrchr($haystack,$needle)
{

    // Returns everything before $needle (inclusive).
    return substr($haystack,0,strpos($haystack,$needle)+1);
    
}

$string = "FIELD NUMBER(9) NOT NULL";

echo strrrchr($string,")"); // Will print FIELD (9)

?>

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carlos dot lage at gmail dot com ¶

19 years ago


I used dchris1 at bigpond dot net dot au 's reverse strrchr and reduced it to one line of code and fixed it's functionality - the real strrchr() returns FALSE if the needle is not found, not the haystack :)

<?php
// reverse strrchr()
function reverse_strrchr($haystack, $needle)
{
                return strrpos($haystack, $needle) ? substr($haystack, 0, strrpos($haystack, $needle) +1 ) : false;
} 
?>

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andfarm at thibs dot menloschool dot org ¶

21 years ago


strrchr is also very useful for finding the extension of a file. For example:

$ext = strrchr($filename, ".");

and $ext will contain the extension of the file, including a ".", if the file has an extension, and FALSE if the file has no extension. If the file has multiple extensions, such as "evilfile.jpg.vbs", then this construction will just return the last extension.

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alex_bb23 at yahoo.co.uk ¶

7 years ago


I think that a good way (I don't know if is the best one) to extract a portion from a string:
<?php

$image = "image.name.jpg";
// get file extension
preg_replace("/.*\.(.*)$/", "$1", $last);
// will result: jpg

?>

Is faster that substr(strrchr...

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