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strripos

(PHP 5)

strripos — Find position of last occurrence of a case-insensitive string in a string

Description

int strripos ( string $haystack , string $needle [, int $offset ] )

Find position of last occurrence of a case-insensitive string in a string. Unlike strrpos(), strripos() is case-insensitive.

Parameters

haystack

The string to search in

needle

Note that the needle may be a string of one or more characters.

offset

The offset parameter may be specified to begin searching an arbitrary number of characters into the string.

Negative offset values will start the search at offset characters from the start of the string.

Return Values

Returns the numerical position of the last occurence of needle . Also note that string positions start at 0, and not 1.

If needle is not found, FALSE is returned.

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 A simple strripos() example

<?php
$haystack 
'ababcd';
$needle   'aB';

$pos      strripos($haystack$needle);

if (
$pos === false) {
    echo 
"Sorry, we did not find ($needle) in ($haystack)";
} else {
    echo 
"Congratulations!\n";
    echo 
"We found the last ($needle) in ($haystack) at position ($pos)";
}
?>

The above example will output:

   Congratulations!
   We found the last (aB) in (ababcd) at position (2)



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peev[dot]alexander at gmail dot com
20-Apr-2008 02:14
OK, I guess this will be the final function implementation for PHP 4.x versions ( my previous posts are invalid )

<?php

if(!function_exists("stripos")){
    function
stripos$str, $needle, $offset = ){
        return
strposstrtolower( $str ), strtolower( $needle ), $offset  );
    }
/* endfunction stripos */
}/* endfunction exists stripos */

if(!function_exists("strripos")){
    function
strripos$haystack, $needle, $offset = ) {
        if(  !
is_string( $needle )  )$needle = chrintval( $needle )  );
        if( 
$offset < ){
           
$temp_cut = strrevsubstr( $haystack, 0, abs($offset) )  );
        }
        else{
           
$temp_cut = strrev(    substr(   $haystack, 0, max(  ( strlen($haystack) - $offset ), )   )    );
        }
        if(   ( 
$found = stripos( $temp_cut, strrev($needle) )  ) === FALSE   )return FALSE;
       
$pos = (   strlen$haystack  ) - (  $found + $offset + strlen( $needle )  )   );
        return
$pos;
    }
/* endfunction strripos */
}/* endfunction exists strripos */
?>
peev[dot]alexander at gmail dot com
23-Nov-2007 03:05
Oops, I forgot to return "false" if the needle is not found. Here is the proper function.

<?php
if(!function_exists("strripos")){
    function
strripos($haystack, $needle, $offset=0) {
        if(
$offset<0){
           
$temp_cut = strrevsubstr( $haystack, 0, abs($offset) )  );
        }
        else{
           
$temp_cut = strrevsubstr( $haystack, $offset )  );
        }
       
$pos = strlen($haystack) - (strpos($temp_cut, strrev($needle)) + $offset + strlen($needle));
        if (
$pos == strlen($haystack)) { $pos = 0; }
       
        if(
strpos($temp_cut, strrev($needle))===false){
             return
false;
        }
        else return
$pos;
    }
/* endfunction strripos*/
}/* endfunction exists strripos*/
?>
peev[dot]alexander at gmail dot com
17-Oct-2007 05:23
I think you shouldn't underestimate the length of $needle in the search of THE FIRST POSITION of it's last occurrence in the string. I improved the posted function, with added support for offset. I think this is an exact copy of the real function:

<?php
if(!function_exists("strripos")){
    function
strripos($haystack, $needle, $offset=0) {
        if(
$offset<0){
           
$temp_cut = strrevsubstr( $haystack, 0, abs($offset) )  );
        }
        else{
           
$temp_cut = strrevsubstr( $haystack, $offset )  );
        }
       
$pos = strlen($haystack) - (strpos($temp_cut, strrev($needle)) + $offset + strlen($needle));
        if (
$pos == strlen($haystack)) { $pos = 0; }
        return
$pos;
    }
/* endfunction strripos*/
}/* endfunction exists strripos*/
?>
ElectroFox
02-Aug-2007 01:59
Sorry, I made that last post a bit prematurely.  One more thing wrong with the simple php4 version is that it breaks if the string is not found.  It should actually look like this:

<?php
if (function_exists('strripos') == false) {
    function
strripos($haystack, $needle) {
       
$pos = strlen($haystack) - strpos(strrev($haystack), strrev($needle));
        if (
$pos == strlen($haystack)) { $pos = 0; }
        return
$pos;
    }
}
?>

Note, we now check to see if the $needle was found, and if it isn't, we return 0.
ElectroFox
02-Aug-2007 01:39
Actually, the above, "Simple way to implement this function in PHP 4" by Yanik Lupien, should be:

<?php
if (function_exists('strripos') == false) {
    function
strripos($haystack, $needle) {
        return
strlen($haystack) - strpos(strrev($haystack), strrev($needle));
    }
}

?>

Note the reversal (<?php strrev($needle)?>) of the search string.  This was left out in Yanik's example, and without it, you'll simply get the length of the haystack, as the forward string will not likely be found in the reversed haystack.

Thus; if we reverse the haystack, any instance of the search string ($needle) therein will also be reversed, so we must reverse it to look for it. :)
Yanik Lupien
03-Jul-2007 10:47
Simple way to implement this function in PHP 4

<?php
if (function_exists('strripos') == false) {
    function
strripos($haystack, $needle) {
        return
strlen($haystack) - strpos(strrev($haystack), $needle);
    }
}

?>
aidan at php dot net
30-May-2004 10:36
This functionality is now implemented in the PEAR package PHP_Compat.

More information about using this function without upgrading your version of PHP can be found on the below link:

http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Compat

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