Re: Checking a strings case

In article <000701c30310$889ee2a0$6401a8c0@p1>, odcs@rogers.com says... > I'm trying to create a function to check a users input for "foul" language > and want to be able to check variations of case (i.e. CasE or cAsE). I have > checked out all the ereg and str* functions but not quite sure how to do > this. These "foul" words are in an array. I have it working now if a user > inputs 'case' or 'CASE'. > > TIA strtoupper() or strtolower() are possibly your friends. Something along the lines of the following will catch all variations. $badwords = array ("poo","bum","wee","bugger") ; //all lower case if(in_array(strtolower($word_to_check))) { echo "Bad person - you used a naughty word"; } Cheers -- Quod subigo farinam $email =~ s/oz$/au/o;