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<?php var_dump(firstWordPosition('Will company any do any job, (are there any)?', 'any')); function firstWordPosition($str, $word) { // There are others, maybe also pass this in or array_merge() for more control. $nonchars = ['.',',','!','?','(',')','^','$','#','\n','\r\n','\t',]; // You could also do a strpos() with an if and another argument passed in. return stripos(str_replace($nonchars, ' ', " $str "), " $word "); }