Trouble Finding Last Position of String

I'm modifying a string and want to find the last position of the occurence of a substring such as "[TEST". This is always followed somewhere in the string with the substring "[/TEST]".

I've used strrpos($string, "[TEST") and strrchar($string, "[TEST").

Each time I get the position of the "[/TEST]" string which follows it. I imagine this has something to do with regular expressions possibly... I just want to deal with strings here though and don't seem to be able to...

Thanks,
James

 

If you have php 5.0 use strripos()

If not use this...

function strripos($haystack, $needle)
{
    $haystack = strtolower($haystack);  //remove this for case-sensitivity
    $needle = strtolower($needle); //remove this for case-sensitivity        
    $tmp  = strpos(strrev($haystack),strrev($needle));
    if ($tmp === false)
        return false;
    else
        return strlen($haystack) - ($tmp + strlen($needle)-1) - 1;
}

PHP:

like this: echo strripos($string, "[TEST");

 

Thanks Gawk!