Re: That crazy IF command!

Regular expressions are slow. If you need to do some fancy searches, then they are pretty nice, but if you're just looking for a string in another string, the stristr() function is faster. (easier to learn too!) -Micah On Sunday 03 April 2005 02:48 pm, Josip Dzolonga wrote: > Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > if (strpos($query_holder, "big fat")) { > > // found > > } > > That's completely wrong. Well try this : > > $string = "big fat fatty"; > if (strpos($string, "big fat")) echo 'found'; > else echo 'not found'; > > It will always return false, because strpos in this case returns 0 > (because the searched text is at position 0) so the IF statement will > never pass. The corrected version of the code above : > > if (strpos($string, "big fat")!==false) echo 'found'; > else echo 'not found'; > > Regular Expressions are always a better and more elegant solution so > take a look at www.php.net/preg > > These were my 0,02$ > > -- > Josip Dzolonga > http://josip.dotgeek.org > > jdzolonga[at]gmail.com