Re: strpos error (I'm missing something obvious)
| From: | Tom Swiss | Date: | Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:56:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: strpos error (I'm missing something obvious) | ||
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jblanchard@pocket.com ("Jay Blanchard") writes:
> !== FALSE is not good either, it is not a valid test
>
> strpos returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in
> the haystack string.
Except when needle doesn't occur in string, in which case
"If needle is not found, strpos() will return boolean FALSE."
Checking strpos($foo,$bar) !== False is exactly right; since 0 == False,
you want to use !==, not !=.
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