<?php
/**
* @version $Id: strcspn.php,v 1.1 2006/02/25 13:50:17 harryf Exp $
* @package utf8
* @subpackage strings
*/

//---------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* UTF-8 aware alternative to strcspn
* Find length of initial segment not matching mask
* Note: requires utf8_strlen and utf8_substr (if start, length are used)
* @param string
* @return int
* @see http://www.php.net/strcspn
* @see utf8_strlen
* @package utf8
* @subpackage strings
*/
function utf8_strcspn($str, $mask, $start = NULL, $length = NULL) {
    
    if ( empty($mask) || strlen($mask) == 0 ) {
        return NULL;
    }
    
    $mask = preg_replace('!([\\\\\\-\\]\\[/^])!','\\\${1}',$mask);
    
    if ( $start !== NULL || $length !== NULL ) {
        $str = utf8_substr($str, $start, $length);
    }
        
    preg_match('/^[^'.$mask.']+/u',$str, $matches);
    
    if ( isset($matches[0]) ) {
        return utf8_strlen($matches[0]);
    }
    
    return 0;
    
}

