Re: php equivalent to asp's instr()

Hmm... Are you sure strpos doesn't work for you? Sure worked for me when I wanted something like that Otherwise, checkout following: http://se2.php.net/strings function instr($needle, $haystack,$case_sensitive=true) { return (($case_sensitive?strpos($needle,$haystack):stripos($needle,$haystack))!==fa lse); } try that, although, that's just from the top of my head, not tested or anything and it's my pretty bad coding style... also, take a look at ereg()... -- // DvDmanDT MSN: dvdmandt@hotmail.com Mail: dvdmandt@telia.com "Chris W. Parker" <cparker@swatgear.com> skrev i meddelandet news:001BD19C96E6E64E8750D72C2EA0ECEE1AE1D8@ati-ex-01.ati.local... Hi. I don't know why but I've had the darndest time trying to find an easy equivalent of asp's InStr() function in PHP. I know there is preg_match(), strpos(), and strstr(), but none of them work like I want them to. In fact, except for maybe preg_match(), I can't get any of them to work right. I want a function that will return true if the string is found, and false if it is not found. Like this:* $needle = "&"; $haystack = "Belle & Sebastian"; if(FoundInString($needle, $haystack)) { echo "found!"; } else { echo "not found!"; } Anyone have a function to share? Thanks, Chris. * Anyone catch the Belle & Sebastian show at the Greek Theatre in LA this past sunday?