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PHP function strrpos()

Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string

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September 11, 2019

Availability in PHP 4.0

Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string

Parameters

Parameter Data type Default value Note
$haystack string not The string to search in.
$needle string not If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.
$offset int 0 If specified, search will start this number of characters counted from the beginning of the string. If the value is negative, search will instead start from that many characters from the end of the string, searching backwards.

Return values

int

|boolean

Returns the position where the needle exists relative to the beginning of the haystack string (independent of search direction or offset). Also note that string positions start at 0, and not 1.

Returns FALSE if the needle was not found.

Other resources

Official strrpos documentation

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