RE: [PHP] array search

btw, you may want to search for a name surrounded by spaces as philip vs philips, jim vs jimmy, etc. probably other considerations as well, or maybe not :) philip On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Philip Olson wrote: > try this : > > $people = array ('philip','sasheen','jim'); > $string = 'Hi, my name is philip, I miss Sasheen'; > > foreach ($people as $person) { > > if (stristr($string,$person)) { > $matches[] = $person; > } > } > > // results live in $matches now. > > print_r($matches); > > stristr is case insensitive, strstr is case sensitive. modify to suit > your needs. > > regards, > Philip Olson > > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Joseph Bannon wrote: > > > What about going the other way? Say I have a sentence... > > > > "Hi, my name is Bob." > > > > ...and I want to search the sentence for one of the values (people) in the > > array... > > > > $people = array("Jim","John","JP","Bob"); > > > > Can this be done? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Joseph > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > yes, in_array($person, $people)! > > > > however, you may take a look into the manual. > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > -- > 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 >