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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extract a string from another string in UNIX Post 302758933 by qwertyu on Monday 21st of January 2013 04:55:54 AM
Old 01-21-2013
extract string from another string

i do not require to replace that with "Replaced". i want to take out that string - "Replace_12123_31233_32134_12342" and do certain operations with it... this might be a different string everytime... but the position of the string wouldnt change..
 

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MB_STRIPOS(3)								 1							     MB_STRIPOS(3)

mb_stripos - Finds position of first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive

SYNOPSIS
int mb_stripos (string $haystack, string $needle, [int $offset], [string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding()]) DESCRIPTION
mb_stripos(3) returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of $needle in the $haystack string. Unlike mb_strpos(3), mb_stripos(3) is case-insensitive. If $needle is not found, it returns FALSE. PARAMETERS
o $haystack - The string from which to get the position of the first occurrence of $needle o $needle - The string to find in $haystack o $offset - The position in $haystack to start searching o $encoding - Character encoding name to use. If it is omitted, internal character encoding is used. RETURN VALUES
Return the numeric position of the first occurrence of $needle in the $haystack string, or FALSE if $needle is not found. SEE ALSO
stripos(3), strpos(3), mb_strpos(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_STRIPOS(3)
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