Re: Array Question

Thanks, I've seen the light by your code. ""Robin Vickery"" <robinv@gmail.com> wrote in message news:5cb2dafd0707110146u6231416fm9afc5a9f3d5bf76b@mail.gmail.com... > On 11/07/07, kvigor <k3cheese@insightbb.com> wrote: >> Is there a php function similar to in_array that can detect if a "partial >> value" is in an array value or not: >> >> e.g. >> >> $var1 = " big horse"; $var2 = " small yellow"; $var3 = " red >> >> hydrant"; >> >> $theArray = array(big blue horse, small yellow bird, giant red hydrant); >> >> Is there a way to find out if $var1 in $theArray or $var2 etc.? > > There's not a built in function, but it's not hard to write one: > > function partial_in_array($needle, $haystack) { > if (!is_array($needle)) { $needle = array($needle); } > > $needle = array_map('preg_quote', $needle); > > foreach ($needle as $pattern) { > if (count(preg_grep("/$pattern/", $haystack)) > 0) return true; > } > > return false; > }