Question

How to run strpos() function within while loop in PHP

Answer 1

$s = "class library (lib) is a library (lib) of classes";

$spos = 0;
$epos = 0;
while ( ($spos = strpos($s, "(")) != false && ($epos = strpos($s, ")")) != false )   
{
    $s1 = substr($s, 0, $spos - 1);    
    $s2 = substr($s, $epos + 1);    
    $s = $s1 . $s2;
}

echo $s;

/*
run:

class library is a library of classes 

*/

 

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Answer 2

$s = "class library (lib) is a library (lib) of classes";

$spos = 0;
$epos = 0;
while ( ($spos = strpos($s, "(")) != false && ($epos = strpos($s, ")")) != false )   
    $s = substr($s, 0, $spos - 1) . substr($s, $epos + 1);

echo $s;

/*
run:

class library is a library of classes 

*/

 

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