# strrchr

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

strrchr — Find the last occurrence of a character in a string

### Description

string strrchr ( string `$haystack` , string `$needle` )

This function returns the portion of `haystack` which starts at the last occurrence of `needle` and goes until the end of `haystack` .

### Parameters

`haystack`

`needle`

  If `needle` contains more than one character, only the first is used. This behavior is different from that of strchr().

  If `needle` is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.

### Return Values

This function returns the portion of string, or `FALSE` if `needle` is not found.

### ChangeLog

Version | Description
--- | ---
4.3.0 | This function is now binary safe.

### Examples

Example#1 strrchr() example

`<?php
// get last directory in $PATH
$dir = substr(strrchr($PATH, ":"), 1);
// get everything after last newline
$text = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";
$last = substr(strrchr($text, 10), 1 );
?>`

### Notes

> Note: This function is binary-safe.

### See Also

- strstr()
- substr()
- stristr()