Mike,
Thanks for your input on this. I'm getting better at php, but it does take
time.
Thanks again,
Hugh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Frazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:53 PM
Subject: [PHP] Re: preg_replace() 'space' the final frontier
> Okay that was quicker than I thought. Here's the code to find the nth
> occurrance of a string within a string:
>
> function strnpos($string, $search, $nth) {
> $count = 0;
> $len = strlen($string);
> $slen = strlen($search);
> for ($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) {
> if (($i + $slen) > $len) { return FALSE; }
> if (substr($string, $i, $slen) == $search) {
> $count++;
> if ($count == $nth) { return $i; }
> }
> }
> if ($count != $nth) { return FALSE; }
> }
>
> It returns the STARTING POINT of the nth occurrance of the string. If you
> are looking for the first occurrance of the word "test" and "test" covers
> positions 10-13, the function returns 10, just like the built-in functions
> strpos() and strrpos(). $string is the string to be searched; $search is
> what you are searcing for; $nth is the number of the occurrance you are
> looking for.
>
> Hope you all can make use of this!
>
> Mike Frazer
>
>
>
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