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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+  <refentry id="function.stripos">
+   <refnamediv>
+    <refname>stripos</refname>
+    <refpurpose>
+     Find position of first occurrence of a case-insensitive string
+    </refpurpose>
+   </refnamediv>
+   <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+     <methodsynopsis>
+      <type>int</type><methodname>stripos</methodname>
+      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>haystack</parameter></methodparam>
+      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>needle</parameter></methodparam>
+      <methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>offset</parameter></methodparam>
+     </methodsynopsis>
+    <para>
+     Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of
+     <parameter>needle</parameter> in the <parameter>haystack</parameter>
+     <type>string</type>.  Unlike <function> strpos</function>, 
+     <function>stripos</function> is case-insensitive.  And unlike 
+     <function>strrpos</function>, this function can take a full string as 
+     the <parameter>needle</parameter> parameter and the entire string will 
+     be used.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     If <parameter>needle</parameter> is not found,
+     <function>strpos</function> will return <type>boolean</type> &false;.
+    </para>
+
+    &false.problem;
+
+    <para>
+     <example>
+     <title><function>stripos</function> examples</title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$findme    = 'a';
+$mystring1 = 'xyz';
+$mystring2 = 'ABC';
+
+$pos1 = stripos($mystring1, $findme);
+$pos2 = stripos($mystring2, $findme);
+
+// Nope, 'a' is certainly not in 'xyz'
+if ($pos1 === false) {
+    echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring1'";
+}
+
+// Note our use of ===.  Simply == would not work as expected
+// because the position of 'a' is the 0th (first) character.
+if ($pos2 !== false) {
+    echo "We found '$findme' in '$mystring2' at position $pos2";
+}
+?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     If <parameter>needle</parameter> is not a string, it is converted
+     to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     The optional <parameter>offset</parameter> parameter allows you
+     to specify which character in <parameter>haystack</parameter> to
+     start searching. The position returned is still relative to the
+     the beginning of <parameter>haystack</parameter>.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     See also <function>strpos</function>, <function>strrpos</function>,
+     <function>strrchr</function>, <function>substr</function>,
+     <function>stristr</function>, <function>strstr</function> and
+     <function>stri_replace</function>.
+    </para>
+   </refsect1>
+  </refentry>
+
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