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<refentry xml:id="function.mb-strpos" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>mb_strpos</refname>
  <refpurpose>Find position of first occurrence of string in a string</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
   
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type class="union"><type>int</type><type>false</type></type><methodname>mb_strpos</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>haystack</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>needle</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>offset</parameter><initializer>0</initializer></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type class="union"><type>string</type><type>null</type></type><parameter>encoding</parameter><initializer>&null;</initializer></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Finds position of the first occurrence of a <type>string</type> in a <type>string</type>.
  </para>
  <para>
   Performs a multi-byte safe
   <function>strpos</function> operation based on number of
   characters. The first character's position is 0, the second character
   position is 1, and so on. 
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>haystack</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The <type>string</type> being checked.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>needle</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The string to find in <parameter>haystack</parameter>. In contrast
       with <function>strpos</function>, numeric values are not applied
       as the ordinal value of a character.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>offset</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The search offset. If it is not specified, 0 is used.
       A negative offset counts from the end of the string.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>encoding</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      &mbstring.encoding.parameter;
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns the numeric position of
   the first occurrence of <parameter>needle</parameter> in the
   <parameter>haystack</parameter> <type>string</type>. If
   <parameter>needle</parameter> is not found, it returns &false;.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="changelog">
  &reftitle.changelog;
  <informaltable>
   <tgroup cols="2">
    <thead>
     <row>
      <entry>&Version;</entry>
      <entry>&Description;</entry>
     </row>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
     &mbstring.changelog.needle-empty;
     &mbstring.changelog.encoding-nullable;
     <row>
      <entry>7.1.0</entry>
      <entry>
       Support for negative <parameter>offset</parameter>s has been added.
      </entry>
     </row>
    </tbody>
   </tgroup>
  </informaltable>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>mb_internal_encoding</function></member>
    <member><function>strpos</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>
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