Re: strange stripos behavior

Too much beer to think through the logical progression of the operators, but maybe try: if (stripos($searchtext, 'xxxx') !== false) { -Shawn Bruce Cowin wrote: > I'm using PHP 5.1 on IIS. I have an app that uses MimeDecode to load > mime files and I've built an object to parse them into their various > parts; i.e., $msg->Body(), $msg->Sender(), etc. I'm using stripos() to > look for a string (that I know is in my test files). It works if I > search in $msg->Body(), but doesn't work if I build a variable and > search it. i.e., > > this works: > > if (!stripos($msg->Body(), 'xxxx') === false) > { > echo "\n found in Body()\n"; > } > > > but this doesn't (I've tried it with and without htmlentities()): > > $searchtext = htmlentities($msg->Sender()) . htmlentities($msg->To()) . > htmlentities($msg->Cc()) . htmlentities($msg->Subject()) . > htmlentities($msg->Body()); > if (!stripos($searchtext, 'xxxx') === false) > { > echo "\nstring found!\n"; > } > > Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. > > > Regards, > > Bruce