PHP Manual: Find length of initial segment not matching mask

Description

int strcspn ( string $str1 , string $str2 [, int $start [, int $length ]] )

Returns the length of the initial segment of str1 which does not contain any of the characters in str2.

Parameters

str1: The first string.
str2: The second string.
start: The start position of the string to examine.
length: The length of the string to examine.

Return Values

Returns the length of the segment as an integer.

Changelog

Version	Description
4.3.0	The `start` and `length` were added

Examples

Example #1 strcspn example


<?php
$a = strcspn('abcd',  'apple');
$b = strcspn('abcd',  'banana');
$c = strcspn('hello', 'l');
$d = strcspn('hello', 'world');

var_dump($a);
var_dump($b);
var_dump($c);
var_dump($d);
?>

The above example will output:

int(0)
int(0)
int(2)
int(2)

Notes

Note: This function is binary-safe.

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