Question

For example I have a string I am @ the penthouse.

I need to know how to find the character “@” in php string and the position of the character.

I tried strpos but its not working.

Thanks for the help in advance.

EDIT:

I’ve been using this for get the character:

$text = "I am @ the penthouse";

$pos = strrpos($text, '@');

if($pos == true)
{
    echo "yes";
}

Answer 1

I would do this

Note, I’m using strpos, not reverse counterpart, strrpos

if (($pos = strpos('I am @ the penthouse.', '@') !== false) {
  echo "pos found: {$pos}";
}
else {
  echo "no @ found";
}

---

Note: Because @ could be the first character in a string, strpos could return a 0. Consider the following:

// check twitter name for @
if (strpos('@twitter', '@')) { ... }

// resolves to
if (0) {
  // this will never run!
}

So, strpos will explicitly return false when no match is found. This is how to properly check for a substring position:

// check twitter name for @
if (strpos('@twitter', '@') !== false) {
  // valid twitter name
}