strpbrk
(PHP 5, PHP 7)
strpbrk — Search a string for any of a set of characters
Description
strpbrk ( string $string , string $characters ) : string|false
strpbrk() searches the string string for a characters.
Parameters
-
string -
The string where
charactersis looked for. -
characters -
This parameter is case sensitive.
Return Values
Returns a string starting from the character found, or false if it is not found.
Examples
Example #1 strpbrk() example
<?php $text = 'This is a Simple text.'; // this echoes "is is a Simple text." because 'i' is matched first echo strpbrk($text, 'mi'); // this echoes "Simple text." because chars are case sensitive echo strpbrk($text, 'S'); ?>
See Also
- strpos() - Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string
- strstr() - Find the first occurrence of a string
- preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match
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