Re: If the first four characters are "0000", then do {}
| From: | Paul M Foster | Date: | Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:04:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: If the first four characters are "0000", then do {} | ||
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:36:50PM -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
> I am reading the manual:
> http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
>
> $mydata->restored = "0000-00-00";
>
> How do I express this? If the first four characters are "0000", then do {}
>
> What I am looking for is in strpos(), no?
>
> if (????????????)
> {
> }
From what I understand, strpos() faster than a lot of other similar
string functions and much faster than regexps. You could do:
if (strpos($mydata->restored, '0000') === 0) {
do_stuff();
}
Paul
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