RE: [PHP] Check if a word is in my string.

use regexps. that's what their specialty is ;-) // case insensitive if ( preg_match("/$text/i", $string) ) { print "$text is in $string"; } // case sensitive if ( preg_match("/$text/", $string) ) { print "$text is in $string"; } > -----Original Message----- > From: daniel james [mailto:cgi_guy1313@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:11 PM > To: Brandon Orther; PHP User Group > Subject: Re: [PHP] Check if a word is in my string. > > > if you're just looking for the 1st occurrence of the > string, it's-- > > $check = "good"; > $var = "This is a good..."; > > if (!strstr($var, $check)) { > print("$check not found"); > } > > also, i think strstr() is case-insensitive, so it > won't be able to differentiate between 'Good' and > 'good', and will NOT return FALSE if 'Good' precedes > 'good' in the string... > > -dj > > > --- Brandon Orther <orther@webintellects.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a variable with a string in it. I want to > > check if in that > > string a certain word is in it. Example > > > > $var = "This is a good sentence"; > > > > $check = look("good", $var); > > > > > > and $check would equal 1 since "good" is in that > > string > > > > > > > > > > does anyone know how to do this? > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >