Re: Profanity Filter
| From: | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | Date: | Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:47:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Profanity Filter | ||
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> true it does take em away, that's why I suggest preg_match as the optimal
> choice... I happen to strongly dislike the strpos() function when used for
> more than:
>
> strpos($str, ":");
>
> ie, one character searches...
>
> -Sterling
>
Huh? Whu? Okay, now I'm confused. What do you mean by "take em away"?
BTW, I dug through the PHP source, and strpos() with any length search is as
efficient as the underlying system's memcmp() implementation. It doesn't do
any special cases for single-character searches.
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>