Bug #12676 Updated: strpos() ignores first character in haystack

ID: 12676 Updated by: rasmus Reported By: aragon@phat.za.net Old Status: Open Status: Bogus Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: FreeBSD 4.3 PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Please read the documentation: http://php.net/strpos Nothing is ignored, you are checking the returned value incorrectly. strpos() returns false when it doesn't find something and the position starting at 0 when it does find a match. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-09 15:22:19] aragon@phat.za.net When performing a string search with strpos() on a string variable the function totally ignores the first character. For example: $astring = "abc defg hij kl"; if (strpos($astring, "abc")) { echo("found\n"); } else { echo("not found\n"); } When running the above script "not found" is echoed instead when, in fact, "found" should be echoed. Here's my ./configure from phpinfo(): ./configure' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php.standalone' '--disable-pear' '--enable-versioning' '--with-system-regex' '--disable-debug' '--enable-track-vars' '--without-gd' '--without-mysql' '--with-zlib' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--enable-ftp' '--with-curl=/usr/local' '--enable-sockets' '--prefix=/usr/local' 'i386--freebsd4.3' A possible workaround would be: $astring = "abc defg hij kl"; $astring = " " . $astring; if (strpos($astring, "abc")) { echo("found\n"); } else { echo("not found\n"); } The above code echoes "found". Regards, Aragon Gouveia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12676&edit=1