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strstr

Name

strstr — Returns all of string after the first occurrence of substring .

Synopsis

string strstr(string, substring); string string: String to search mixed substring: String to find

Returns

String; FALSE if the substring doesn't exist in the string

Description

strstr() returns all of string after the first occurrence of substring . If substring doesn't exist in string , the function returnsFALSE.

Version

PHP 3+, PHP 4+

Example

Example 1233. Use strstr() to parse data out of a simple format

<?php
$quote = "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. --Mark Twain";
$separator = '--';
if ($remainer = strstr($quote, $separator)) {
   echo "The author for this quote was likely '",
      substr($remainer, strlen($separator)), "'.";
} else {
   echo "Is this quote in the right format? I couldn't find '$separator'";
}
?>

Output:The author for this quote was likely 'Mark Twain'.

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