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Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

strstr

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

strstr — Find first occurrence of a string

Description

string strstr ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, bool $before_needle ] )

Returns part of haystack string from the first occurrence of needle to the end of haystack .

Note: This function is case-sensitive. For case-insensitive searches, use stristr().

Note: If you only want to determine if a particular needle occurs within haystack , use the faster and less memory intensive function strpos() instead.

Parameters

haystack

The input string.

needle

If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.

before_needle

If TRUE (the default is FALSE), strstr() returns the part of the haystack before the first occurence of the needle .

Return Values

Returns the portion of string, or FALSE if needle is not found.

ChangeLog

Version Description
5.3.0 Added the optional parameter before_needle .
4.3.0 strstr() was made binary safe.

Examples

Example #1 strstr() example

<?php
$email 
= 'name@example.com';
$domain = strstr($email, '@');
echo
$domain; // prints @example.com

$user = strstr($email, '@', true); // As of PHP 5.3.0
echo $user; // prints name
?>



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