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stripos

(PHP 5)

stripos -- Find position of first occurrence of a case-insensitive string

Description

int stripos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset] )

Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string.

Unlike strpos(), stripos() is case-insensitive.

Parameters

haystack

needle

Note that the needle may be a string of one or more characters.

If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.

offset

The optional offset parameter allows you to specify which character in haystack to start searching. The position returned is still relative to the beginning of haystack.

Return Values

If needle is not found, stripos() 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.

Examples

Example 1. stripos() examples


<?php
$findme    = 'a';
$mystring1 = 'xyz';
$mystring2 = 'ABC';

$pos1 = stripos($mystring1, $findme);
$pos2 = stripos($mystring2, $findme);

// Nope, 'a' is certainly not in 'xyz'
if ($pos1 === false) {
    echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring1'";
}

// Note our use of ===.  Simply == would not work as expected
// because the position of 'a' is the 0th (first) character.
if ($pos2 !== false) {
    echo "We found '$findme' in '$mystring2' at position $pos2";
}
?>

Notes

Note: This function is binary-safe.

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