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    PHP check if string contains something

    By admin on Jan 27, 2016

    Checking if a string contains a substring is very frequently occuring use case in PHP code. PHP functions strpos or stripos (case insensitive version) can be used for this. Here are some examples.

    strpos example

    <?php
    $str = "Hello world";
    $pos = strpos($str, "world");
    if ($pos !== FALSE) {
      echo "FOUND at post:$pos\n";
    } else {
      echo "NOT_FOUND\n";
    }
    ?>
    FOUND at post:6
    
    Env: PHP 7.4.33 (Linux)

    stripos example

    <?php
    $str = "Hello world";
    $pos = strpos($str, "WORLD");
    if ($pos !== FALSE) {
      echo "strpos: FOUND at post:$pos\n";
    } else {
      echo "strpos: NOT_FOUND\n";
    }
    $pos = stripos($str, "WORLD");
    if ($pos !== FALSE) {
      echo "stripos: FOUND at post:$pos\n";
    } else {
      echo "stripos: NOT_FOUND\n";
    }
    ?>
    strpos: NOT_FOUND
    stripos: FOUND at post:6
    
    Env: PHP 7.4.33 (Linux)

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