I know that i could use strpos to find the first occurrence of a string. But is it possible to find the first occurrence of a character that is not an alphabetic character or number.
For example:
strpos2('hello world') => 5
strpos2('hi!you') => 2
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Moradnejad
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`strpos` worked for all character. you can use `strpos('hello world',' ')` and `strpos('hi!you','!')`. – Mohammad Hamedani Jun 11 '17 at 06:25
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@MohammadHamedani I am not asking for a specific character. I want to find the first occurrence of a non-alphabetic character (any character). Not to find the first space or !. – Moradnejad Jun 11 '17 at 06:27
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preg_split with`[^\w]` and take strlen of the first chunk. If you don't want `_` write a stronger condition – splash58 Jun 11 '17 at 06:35
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@splash58 yes. I think `/[^A-Za-z0-9]/` is more accurate. – Moradnejad Jun 11 '17 at 06:45
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Try with preg_match
$string = "hi!you";
preg_match('/[\W]+/', $string, $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
print_r($match);
Here $match will return position of first matching non alphabetic character
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thanks. I think some changes will improve it: `if(preg_match("/[\W]+/", $str, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE)) { $index = $matches[0][1]; }` – Moradnejad Jun 11 '17 at 06:42
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