Re: Re: Matching a partial string

On 15 November 2014 04:32:51 GMT+00:00, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com> wrote: >On 11/14/2014 10:34 PM, Ron Piggott wrote: >> >> Is there a way (similar to in_array) to match a partial string? >> >> Haystack: >> $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] >> >> Needles: >> /prayers-for-today/% >> /one-year-Bible-reading-guide/% >> /past-issues/% >> >> where % matches the dynamic remainder of the string >> >> Thank you. >Look up the stripos function I would probably do something like this: $pattern = '/\/(prayers-for-today|one-year-Bible-reading-guide|past-issues)\/(.+)/'; preg_match($pattern, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $matches); $matches will have all your last part in as the second index. Thanks, Ash