Re: strpos() act funny when searching for "]]>"....

Ah! Found the problem... It is probably a bug with strpos() because it seem to get stuck in there and couldn't get out of it somehow. The workaround the problem I did was just easily increment the $HTML_End by 1 and that fixed the problem. It look like this... --snip-- $XML_Start = (strpos($res_str,"<![CDATA[")+9); $HTML_Start = (strpos($res_str,"<![CDATA[",$XML_Start)+9); $HTML_End = strpos($res_str,"]]>",$HTML_Start); $HTML_End += 1; $XML_End = strpos($res_str,"]]>",$HTML_End); --snip-- Thanks all for the quick feedback! I appreciate it! Scott F. "Scott Fletcher" <scott@abcoa.com> wrote in message news:20031121160829.25651.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Um, it seem to work. That's weird. Should have check for the string length > first, so I wasn't looking at the same problem. So, I did further debugging > and I'm going to post the script here. Still don't know what is the problem > here... > > --snip-- > $XML_Start = (strpos($res_str,"<![CDATA[")+9); > $HTML_Start = (strpos($res_str,"<![CDATA[",$XML_Start)+9); > $HTML_End = strpos($res_str,"]]>",$HTML_Start); > $XML_End = strpos($res_str,"]]>",$HTML_End); > > echo $XML_Start." ***XML Start<br>"; > echo $XML_End." ***XML End<br><br>"; > echo $HTML_Start." ***HTML Start<br>"; > echo $HTML_End." ***HTML End<br>"; > > echo strlen($res_str); > --snip-- > > The response I got here is... > > --snip-- > 319 ***XML Start > 119843 ***XML End > > 25650 ***HTML Start > 119843 ***HTML End > 120015 > --snip-- > > As we see, the number for $XML_End and $HTML_End are the same which is > not correct because there are two seperate "]]>" near the end of hte string. > So, I still don't know what hte problem is... > > Scott F. > > "Curt Zirzow" <php-general@zirzow.dyndns.org> wrote in message > news:20031121160303.GD42976@bagend.shire... > > * Thus wrote Scott Fletcher (scott@abcoa.com): > > > strpos() is acting a little bit funny. When I do this... > > > > > > --snip-- > > > $a = strpos($data,"]]>"); > > > --snip-- > > > > > > Problem is there are "]]>" characters in the $data string and it just > > > doesn't see it. Anyone know why and what is the workaround to it? > > > > It works perfectly fine: > > > > $data = 'asdf ]]> asdf'; > > $a = strpos($data,"]]>"); > > print $a; //output: 5 > > > > > > Curt > > -- > > "My PHP key is worn out" > > > > PHP List stats since 1997: > > http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/