RE: [PHP] IF statement question...

Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > strpos() : 0.18918436765671 > preg_match() : 0.26665662288666 > [/snip] > > 1/3rd of a second slower....interesting. You know what though, my > original assertion is correct....almost any of the regex functions > will work. Personally, I prefer using preg_match() 9 times out of 10 vs. strpos(), strstr(), etc. Whatever performance penalty I pay for doing this is a statistical drop in the bucket compared to the overhead of, say, opening a connection to a database (which nearly all of my pages do). I'm also a perl guy so regex's are more natural to me to read and write so I tend to favor them...