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# strrchr

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

strrchr -- Find the last occurrence of a character in a string

## Description

string strrchr ( string haystack, string needle)

This function returns the portion of `haystack` which starts at the last occurrence of `needle` and goes until the end of `haystack`.

Returns `FALSE` if `needle` is not found.

If `needle` contains more than one character, the first is used.

If `needle` is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.

Example 1. strrchr() example

    // get last directory in $PATH
    $dir = substr(strrchr($PATH, ":"), 1);

    // get everything after last newline
    $text = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";
    $last = substr(strrchr($text, 10), 1 );

See also strchr(), substr(), stristr(), and strstr().

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