Re: search string
| From: | dempsejn at georgetown dot edu | Date: | Mon, 16 Apr 2001 01:20:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: search string | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Even better, try strstr...it'll be faster than a regexp for a simple
search of a string for another string.
-jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Talltorp" <tobias@talltorp.com>
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2001 7:20 pm
Subject: Re: [PHP] search string
> I think you want regular expressions...
>
> Try this on for size:
> $str = "http://www.yahoo.com/somedir/somepage.html";
>
> if (preg_match("/www.yahoo.com/i", $str)) {
> print "Your submission cannot be accepted";
> } else {
> print "You are good";
> }
>
> If you want to read up on regular expressions:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php (Faster than ereg)
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php
>
> // Tobias Talltorp
>
>
> ""Joseph Bannon"" <joseph@iwebsitesoftware.com> wrote in message
>
> news:NEBBJPFPMLBIJMIFFHFJMELHCMAA.joseph@iwebsitesoftware.com...
> > What is the function to search a string? Basically, I want
> search a string
> > (a url) to see if it has "www.yahoo.com" in it and if yes, tell
> the user
> > their submission cannot be accepted.
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> >
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