Re: search a string backwards - like reversed stripos
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:07:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: search a string backwards - like reversed stripos | ||
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* Thus wrote Chris Widmer (pogo@gibts.net):
> hello,
>
> i am looking for a function that easily searches a sting backwards -
> just like stripos but reversed. is there already one part of php or does
> anyone have a nice function written? right now i do it by reversing the
> sting and using strpos, but this is highly inefficient. any ideas/solutions?
You could use the strrchr function to achieve this:
$pos = strrpos(strtolower($str), $needle);
Curt
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