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When we search whether a character exists in a string in PHP, we generally use the functions strstr, strpos, substr, strrchr, and stripos, which are commonly used character search functions. Students who need to know more can take a look.
1. strstr — Find the first occurrence of a string
string strstr ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, bool $before_needle = false ] )
Note 1: $haystack is the subject string, and $needle is the searched string. This function is case-sensitive.
Note 2: The return value is from the beginning to the end of needle.
Note 3: Regarding $needle, if it is not a string, it is treated as an integer and used as the sequence number of the character.
Note 4: If before_needle is true, the previous thing will be returned.
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$email = 'yuxiaoxiao@example.com';
$domain = strstr($email, '@');
echo $domain; // print @example.com
3. strpos - Find the first occurrence of a string int strpos ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] ) Note 1: The optional offset parameter can be used to specify which character in haystack to start searching from. The numerical position returned is relative to the starting position of the haystack.4. substr - returns the substring of the string string substr ( string $string , int $start [, int $length ] ) $rest = substr("abcdef", -1); // return "f"Note 1: If start is a non-negative number, the returned string will start from the start position of string and start counting from 0. For example, in the string "abcdef", the character at position 0 is "a", the character at position 2 is "c", and so on. Note 2: If start is a negative number, the returned string will start from the start character forward from the end of string. Note 3: If the length of string is less than or equal to start, FALSE will be returned.
length Note 4: If a positive length is provided, the returned string will contain at most length characters starting from start (depending on the length of string). Note 5: If a negative length is provided, many characters at the end of the string will be missed (if start is a negative number, it will be counted from the end of the string). If start is not in this text, an empty string will be returned. Note 6: If length with a value of 0, FALSE or NULL is provided, an empty string will be returned. Note 7: If length is not provided, the returned substring will start from the start position until the end of the string.
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