I have a string and three sub strings:
$str = "smartphones";
$substr1 = "smart";
$substr2 = "phon";
$substr3 = "smartphone";
running the three substrings through a function should return 5, 4 and 10 respectively. If there's no match, it should return 0.
EDIT:
Also, if the string is "smartphones and other phones", $substr2 should still return 4, not 8
$str = "smartphones";
$substr1 = "smart";
$substr2 = "phon";
$substr3 = "smartphone";
if (false !== strpos($str, $substr1)) {
echo strlen($substr1); // same with other substrings
}
You can use strpos() function to find the first occurrence of the substr and then just return the length of the substr.
function substrMatched($str, $substr){
$res = strpos($str, $substr);
if($res === false)
return 0;
return strlen($substr);
}
Well, given Answer above was not exactly what you wanted :) I'd solve it like that:
//Code snipplet with iteration
$str = "smartphones phone";
$substr1 = "smart";
$substr2 = "phon";
$substr3 = "smartphone";
$substr_array[] = $substr1;
$substr_array[] = $substr2;
$substr_array[] = $substr3;
foreach ($substr_array as $substr) {
if($str[strpos($str,$substr,0)]!= " "){
echo substr_count($str,$substr). " at Position";
echo strpos($str,$substr,0). "\xA";}
}
strlen()?