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Old 02-08-2008
finding position of a string in a variable

Hi,

I have to find a text in a variable and need to get the position of it. say,

a="This is Example Example1 xxx yyy Example"

if i search for "Example" then i should get the location of the starting location "Example".
and in next iteration it should give the location of next "Example"

is there any easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance,
-Raja

Last edited by smr_rashmy; 02-08-2008 at 08:11 AM..
 

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MB_STRPOS(3)								 1							      MB_STRPOS(3)

mb_strpos - Find position of first occurrence of string in a string

SYNOPSIS
int mb_strpos (string $haystack, string $needle, [int $offset], [string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding()]) DESCRIPTION
Finds position of the first occurrence of a string in a string. Performs a multi-byte safe strpos(3) operation based on number of characters. The first character's position is 0, the second character position is 1, and so on. PARAMETERS
o $haystack - The string being checked. o $needle - The string to find in $haystack. In contrast with strpos(3), numeric values are not applied as the ordinal value of a character. o $offset - The search offset. If it is not specified, 0 is used. o $encoding -The $encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used. RETURN VALUES
Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of $needle in the $haystack string. If $needle is not found, it returns FALSE. SEE ALSO
mb_internal_encoding(3), strpos(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_STRPOS(3)
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