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Asked: 2026-05-25T02:03:15+00:00

$string = 01234567890*****12345678901234567890*; echo strrpos($string,’*****’); why does this return 36 and not 15? (

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$string = "01234567890*****12345678901234567890*";  
echo strrpos($string,'*****');

why does this return 36 and not 15? (click here to test)

from php.net
strrpos — Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring
in a string

What am I missing out on???
Thank you!

SOLUTION:
using the answers bellow, I provided a PHP4 alternative 

$haystack = "01234567890*****12345678901234567890*";  
$needle              = '*****';

$position = strlen($haystack) - strlen($needle) - strpos(strrev($haystack),strrev($needle));
echo $position; // 11
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  1. Editorial Team

    Probably you’re using PHP 4:

    from php.net

    needle:
    If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character. The needle can only be a single character in PHP 4.

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