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PHP strrpos Examples

Use strrpos() to do backwards matching for substrings in PHP.

Important: Use Correct Comparsion Operator!

Only ever compare with the identical operators === / !== and only ever compare with false!

Positive match

 if (strrpos($str, $substr) !== false) {
      echo("Does match!")
 }

Negative match

 if (strrpos($str, $substr) === false) {
      echo("Does not match.")
 }

Check out PHP strpos for more details.

Search From Offset

If you want to continue a search or want to skip something at the end use an offset as third parameter:

 if (strrpos($str, $substr, 5) === false) {

By using the return value of strrpos() you can do repeated searches:

 $pos1 = strrpos($str, $substr);
 $pos2 = strrpos($str, $substr, $pos1 + strlen($pos1));