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Doc Bug #33189 error in definition of strripos
Submitted: 2005-05-30 19:51 UTC Modified: 2005-05-30 20:05 UTC
From: alex at idoia dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: debian linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-05-30 19:51 UTC] alex at idoia dot com 
Description:
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the description says:
"offset may be specified to begin searching an arbitrary 
number of characters into the string. Negative values 
will stop searching at an arbitrary point prior to the 
end of the string."

And I think the right definition is:
offset may be specified to begin searching an arbitrary 
number of characters into the string. Negative values 
will START searching at an arbitrary point prior to the 
end of the string.

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 [2005-05-30 19:58 UTC] aidan@php.net 
Hi Alex,

Actually that's not quite correct either.

Negative offset values mean the end of string is moved to the left by the magnitude of the specified value plus one.

E.g. strripos('abcdef', 'b', -4) will search the string 'abc' for 'b'.

I've updated the manual to be a little more explicit.
 
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