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Aug 31, 2003, 7:16 PM
Stealth
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String Operators (PHP)
Hello.

I just want to double check with those PHP experts out there in terms of using the . to find out whether a string "contains" some string.

I did read the following web page:

http://us4.php.net/...age.operators.string

I am using the following codes in one of my PHP scripts:

Code:
if ($destination . "sometext") {

It seems to do what I want, but not sure if that's the most efficient method of finding out whether a string contains some text.

Thanks in advance.
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Aug 31, 2003, 7:21 PM
hennagaijin
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Aug 31, 2003, 7:21 PM
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I've never seen the concatenation operator used in that way, but I guess if it works, why not?

I would normally just use the strstr function for this.
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Aug 31, 2003, 7:31 PM
Alex
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Aug 31, 2003, 7:31 PM
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I don't think that's what you want. "." will concat two strings to together (join them into one string). It won't tell you if one contains the other.

I think you want strstr like recommended by hennagaijin .

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Aug 31, 2003, 8:48 PM
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Aug 31, 2003, 8:48 PM
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Thanks, hennagaijin and Alex.

Yes, strstr function seems to be a more efficient method of doing it. I'll take a closer look at the PHP site web page and see if I can't improve the codes I am using...

Thanks.
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Sep 1, 2003, 1:27 PM
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Sep 1, 2003, 1:27 PM
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Welp, strstr function didn't really do the trick for me...so I used strpos function:

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$pos = strpos($destination, 'sometext');
if ($pos == true) {
OTHER CONDITIONS
}

works just fine....you were correct, Alex, the . string operator didn't really check to see if the text was within the string.
Sep 1, 2003, 1:33 PM
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Sep 1, 2003, 1:33 PM
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Could also use preg_match();

Code:
$string "see if we can find This";

if (preg_match("/find this/i",$string,$var)) {
do_this();
}

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Sep 1, 2003, 4:51 PM
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Sep 1, 2003, 4:51 PM
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If you don't actually need to use regex matching, the straight-up string matching functions should be more efficient.
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Sep 1, 2003, 9:45 PM
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Sep 1, 2003, 9:45 PM
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Good points...yes, I don't need to use regular expression pattern matching...just checking that the redirection var string ($direction) contains a certain string of text in order to check other conditions...
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