mb_stripos
Finds position of first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
Description
intfalse mb_stripos(
string $haystack,
string $needle,
int $offset = 0,
stringnull $encoding = null
)
mb_stripos returns the numeric position of
the first occurrence of needle in the
haystack string.
Unlike mb_strpos,
mb_stripos is case-insensitive.
If needle is not found, it returns false.
Parameters
-
haystack
-
The string from which to get the position of the first occurrence
of needle
-
needle
-
The string to find in haystack
-
offset
-
The position in haystack
to start searching.
A negative offset counts from the end of the string.
-
encoding
-
The
encoding
parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null, the internal character
encoding value will be used.
Return Values
Return the numeric position of the first occurrence of
needle in the haystack
string, or false if needle is not found.
Errors/Exceptions
-
If
offset is greater than the length of
haystack, a
ValueError will be thrown.