Re: Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #3017 Updated: if(strpos("Mozilla/4.7", "Mozilla") evaluates false!!!

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Cuneyt YILMAZ wrote: > thank you for the fast response. however the function still does not > behave as one would expect. > > that strpos("Mozilla/4.7", "Mozilla") is 0 should not mean that it's > not > found, instead should mean that it's found right on the 0th position, > and therefore in an if-clause should evaluate to true. > > i know there are many workarounds to this problem, like > if (substr($uagent, 0, 7) == "Mozilla)) { > or > if (strpos($uagent, "ozilla") == 1 ) { > etc, etc > > yet the strpos function still does not behave as expected, ie return -1 > if not found as in the other languages, say C/C++, Java, JavaScript, > Perl, to name a few giants. The semantics of strpos() are not going to change and if() will certainly not evaluate 0 as true. I offered you a workaround - to see whether the match succeeded or not try: if (strpos($uagent, "Mozilla") === false) means that match was not found. -Andrei * On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key. *