JavaScript stripos

Finds position of first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive

function stripos ( f_haystack, f_needle, f_offset ){
    // Finds position of first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive  
    // 
    // version: 1008.1718
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/stripos    // +     original by: Martijn Wieringa
    // +      revised by: Onno Marsman
    // *         example 1: stripos('ABC', 'a');
    // *         returns 1: 0
    var haystack = (f_haystack+'').toLowerCase();    var needle = (f_needle+'').toLowerCase();
    var index = 0;
 
    if ((index = haystack.indexOf(needle, f_offset)) !== -1) {
        return index;    }
    return false;
}

external links: original PHP docs | raw js source

Examples

Running

1	stripos('ABC', 'a');

Should return

Dependencies

No dependencies, you can use this function standalone.

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Authors

Thanks to the following developers, you get to have stripos goodness in JavaScript.

Martijn Wieringa ( original )
Onno Marsman ( revised )

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Kevin van Zonneveld
6 Oct '08

@ Onno Marsman: Processed. Thank you!

Onno Marsman
4 Oct '08

Improved to accept things other than strings. Also "if(f_offset == undefined) {" seemed useless since indexOf accepts undefined as a 0 anyway. Also changed > -1 to !== -1, to increase performance a tiny bit.

[CODE="Javascript"]
function stripos ( f_haystack, f_needle, f_offset ) {
var haystack = (f_haystack+'').toLowerCase();
var needle = (f_needle+'').toLowerCase();
var index = 0;

if ((index = haystack.indexOf(needle, f_offset)) !== -1) {
return index;
}
return false;
}
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Kevin van Zonneveld
7 Mar '08

@ Thiago Mata: Thanks alot, I've added the function!

call_user_func_array
7 Mar '08

[CODE="Javascript"]
/**
* @author Thiago Mata
* @date 07/03/2008
* @param callback strFunctionName
* @param array arrParam
* @return mixer
* @url thiagomata.blog.com
*/
function call_user_func_array( strFunctionName , arrParam )
{
var strCommand = "";
var i;

strCommand += "return " + strFunctionName + "(";
for( i = 0; i < arrParam.length; ++i )
{
strCommand += "arrParam[" + i + "]" ;
if( ( i + 1 ) != arrParam.length )
{
strCommand += ",";
}
}
strCommand += ")";
var oFunction = new Function( "arrParam" , strCommand );
return oFunction( arrParam );
}
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