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Bash implementation of strpos and substr functions from PHP library
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# @param string $1
# Input string.
# @param int $2
# Cut an amount of characters from left side of string.
# @param int [$3]
# Leave an amount of characters in the truncated string.
substr()
{
local length=${3}
if [ -z "${length}" ]; then
length=$((${#1} - ${2}))
fi
local str=${1:${2}:${length}}
if [ "${#str}" -eq "${#1}" ]; then
echo "${1}"
else
echo "${str}"
fi
}
# @param string $1
# Input string.
# @param string $2
# String that will be searched in input string.
# @param int [$3]
# Offset of an input string.
strpos()
{
local str=${1}
local offset=${3}
if [ -n "${offset}" ]; then
str=`substr "${str}" ${offset}`
else
offset=0
fi
str=${str/${2}*/}
if [ "${#str}" -eq "${#1}" ]; then
return 0
fi
echo $((${#str}+${offset}))
}
str="windows should should die"
substr "${str}" 4 2 # ow
strpos "${str}" "i" # 1
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