Finding 1st occurence of chars in string

[Anon]

I know how to do this, but it involves several lines of code...I'm sure there's was a more economical method....

$my_string="sjdhe9,dj(jd73";

I want to know if "d", "j", OR "7" appears in the string, and if any of them do then which of those characters appears first, and what position was it in the string.

Thanks in advance.

[Anon]

off the top of my head, I would start here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php

[Anon]

$my_string="sjdhe9,dj(jd73";
$key = "d9j";
$pos = strlen($my_string);
for($i = 0; $i < strlen($key); $i++)
{
if((strpos($my_string, substr($key, $i,1)) !== false) && strpos($my_string, substr($key, $i,1))<$pos)
{
$pos = strpos($my_string, substr($key, $i,1));
$offset= $i;
}
}
echo "pos: ".$pos+1.", char: ".substr($key, $offset,1);

thats what i come up with, if your's is smaller....