note 87868 deleted from function.strpos by cmb
| From: | cmb@php.net | Date: | Sun, 02 Jun 2019 09:01:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 87868 deleted from function.strpos by cmb | ||
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Note Submitter: jburns131 at jbwebware dot com
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The Situation:
I wanted to return TRUE if strpos returned position 0, and only position 0, without the added
overhead of preg_match.
The Solution:
As PHP treats 0 (zero) as NULL, and strpos returns the int 0 (but not NULL), I used type casting and
the "===" comparison operator (as it compares types) to resolve my issue.
<?php
$hayStack = "dbHost";
$needle = "db"
$needlePos = strpos($hayStack, $needle);
if((string)$needlePos === (string)0) {
echo "db is in position zero";
} else {
echo "db is NOT in position zero";
}
?>
Returns:
db is in position zero
<?php
$hayStack = "another_db_host";
$needle = "db"
$needlePos = strpos($hayStack, $needle);
if((string)$needlePos === (string)0) {
echo "db is in position zero";
} else {
echo "db is NOT in position zero";
}
?>
This returns:
db is in NOT position zero