How about this: $text = "this is test";
preg_match can return the first match in an optional array I'll call $matches http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php preg_match('/test/', $text, $matches); strpos returns the numeric position of the first occurrence http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php $pos = strpos($text, $matches[0]); die("$pos"); // should be what you want... 10 Jim Grill Support Web-1 Hosting http://www.web-1hosting.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "lallous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:40 AM Subject: [PHP] preg_match() occurence position > Hello, > > Can I get the starting position of my string occurence when using any > regexps searching functions in PHP ? > > for example: > $mem='this is a test'; > preg_match('/test/', ...) should return me somehow: 10 > > > Thanks > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
