How to get first and last occurence of an array of words in text using PHP?

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Published on 2010-04-12T09:32:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 9:43 UTC
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$arr = array('superman','gossipgirl',...);


$text = 'arbitary stuff here...';

What I want to do is find the first/last occurencing index of each word in $arr within $text,how to do it efficiently in PHP?

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