Re: Re: strange stripos behavior

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 20:03 -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > For another guru, I have a question. I just checked the returns of this > func on php.net to check myself and I see: > > This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a > non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "". > > When would stripos() return "" ? It wouldn't. What it means is that if you use == to test the return value then you won't know if the string failed to match or if it matched at index 0. Instead you should use === false to check for failure. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................