strpbrk

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

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 characters is 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');
?>

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User Contributed Notes

devnuhl

10 years ago

If you're not looking to duplicate the rest of the string, but instead just want the offset, in the spirit of the str*pos() functions, use strcspn()

guillaume dot barranco at free dot fr

7 years ago

A little modification to Evan's code to use an array for the second parameter :

<?php

function strpbrkpos($s, $accept) {
  $r = FALSE;
  $t = 0;
  $i = 0;
  $accept_l = count($accept);

  for ( ; $i < $accept_l ; $i++ )
    if ( ($t = strpos($s, $accept[$i])) !== FALSE )
      if ( ($r === FALSE) || ($t < $r) )
        $r = $t;

    return $r;
}

?>