Re: Re: preg_replace() 'space' the final frontier

Mike, Thanks for your input on this. I'm getting better at php, but it does take time. Thanks again, Hugh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Frazer" <mike@invertedmind.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: [PHP] Re: preg_replace() 'space' the final frontier > Okay that was quicker than I thought. Here's the code to find the nth > occurrance of a string within a string: > > function strnpos($string, $search, $nth) { > $count = 0; > $len = strlen($string); > $slen = strlen($search); > for ($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) { > if (($i + $slen) > $len) { return FALSE; } > if (substr($string, $i, $slen) == $search) { > $count++; > if ($count == $nth) { return $i; } > } > } > if ($count != $nth) { return FALSE; } > } > > It returns the STARTING POINT of the nth occurrance of the string. If you > are looking for the first occurrance of the word "test" and "test" covers > positions 10-13, the function returns 10, just like the built-in functions > strpos() and strrpos(). $string is the string to be searched; $search is > what you are searcing for; $nth is the number of the occurrance you are > looking for. > > Hope you all can make use of this! > > Mike Frazer > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >