... PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0) strrchr -- Find the last occurrence of a character in a string . 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 . ... Example 1. strrchr() example . 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 ); . ...