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+<?php
+/**
+* @version $Id: stristr.php,v 1.1 2006/02/25 13:50:17 harryf Exp $
+* @package utf8
+* @subpackage strings
+*/
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+* UTF-8 aware alternative to stristr
+* Find first occurrence of a string using case insensitive comparison
+* Note: requires utf8_strtolower
+* @param string
+* @param string
+* @return int
+* @see http://www.php.net/strcasecmp
+* @see utf8_strtolower
+* @package utf8
+* @subpackage strings
+*/
+function utf8_stristr($str, $search) {
+
+ if ( strlen($search) == 0 ) {
+ return $str;
+ }
+
+ $lstr = utf8_strtolower($str);
+ $lsearch = utf8_strtolower($search);
+ preg_match('/^(.*)'.preg_quote($lsearch).'/Us',$lstr, $matches);
+
+ if ( count($matches) == 2 ) {
+ return substr($str, strlen($matches[1]));
+ }
+
+ return FALSE;
+}