PHP: stripos function - 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

The string to search in

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.

stripos

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