PHP strpos()

The strpos() function performs a case-sensitive search for the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a given string. If the substring is found, it will return the index of the beginning of the substring. If it isn’t found, the function won’t return any output.

Syntax

strpos(string, find, start)

Parameters:

• string is the string that the function searches.
• find is the value to search for within string.
• start tells the function to start the search at a specified index which is optional.

Note: If the substring is found, the function returns the position where the substring starts. If the substring is not found, it returns false.

Example

The following code demonstrates a basic implementation of strpos():

<?php
echo  strpos("I love PHP, I love php too!","php");
?>

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The output of the above code will be:

19

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