(PHP 4, PHP 5)
strspn — Finds the length of the initial segment of a string consisting entirely of characters contained within a given mask.
$subject
, string $mask
[, int $start
[, int $length
]] )
Finds the length of the initial segment of subject
that contains only characters from mask.
If start and length
are omitted, then all of subject will be
examined. If they are included, then the effect will be the same as
calling strspn(substr($subject, $start, $length),
$mask) (see substr
for more information).
The line of code:
<?php
$var = strspn("42 is the answer to the 128th question.", "1234567890");
?>
subject that consists only of characters
contained within "1234567890".
subjectThe string to examine.
maskThe list of allowable characters.
start
The position in subject to
start searching.
If start is given and is non-negative,
then strspn() will begin
examining subject at
the start'th position. For instance, in
the string 'abcdef', the character at
position 0 is 'a', the
character at position 2 is
'c', and so forth.
If start is given and is negative,
then strspn() will begin
examining subject at
the start'th position from the end
of subject.
length
The length of the segment from subject
to examine.
If length is given and is non-negative,
then subject will be examined
for length characters after the starting
position.
If lengthis given and is negative,
then subject will be examined from the
starting position up to length
characters from the end of subject.
Returns the length of the initial segment of subject
which consists entirely of characters in mask.
Example #1 strspn() example
<?php
// subject does not start with any characters from mask
var_dump(strspn("foo", "o"));
// examine two characters from subject starting at offset 1
var_dump(strspn("foo", "o", 1, 2));
// examine one character from subject starting at offset 1
var_dump(strspn("foo", "o", 1, 1));
?>
The above example will output:
int(0) int(2) int(1)
Note: This function is binary-safe.