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Description

UTF-8 aware alternative to strcspn Find length of initial segment not matching mask

Syntax

static strcspn($str, $mask, $start=NULL, $length=NULL)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$str
$mask		the mask
$start	NULL	Optional starting character position (in characters)
$length	NULL	Optional length

Returns

int the length of the initial segment of str1 which does not contain any of the characters in str2

Defined in

libraries/joomla/utilities/string.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.string' );

Source Body

public static function strcspn($str, $mask, $start = NULL, $length = NULL)
{
        jimport('phputf8.strcspn');
        if ( $start === FALSE && $length === FALSE ) {
                return utf8_strcspn($str, $mask);
        } else if ( $length === FALSE ) {
                return utf8_strcspn($str, $mask, $start);
        } else {
                return utf8_strcspn($str, $mask, $start, $length);
        }
}