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# strrchr

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

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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