Re: What could the intention be of someone using "\0" in comparison be?

Jacob Kruger wrote: > As in, while my first guess would be that they'd meant to use just the > number 0, what would your guesstimate be relating to why someone would in > fact use the following syntax as part of determining if a certain > phrase/string was included in a variable's value? > > //start excerpt... > if (strpos ($text, "<b>") >= "\0") > //end excerpt > > ??? Well, using "0" or 0 instead of "\0" would result in unintended behavior. Consider strpos() returning 0, because the $needle is found at the very beginning of $haystack. See <http://3v4l.org/0uaY6>, where the second and third results are not desired. However, I prefer the following way to test that a string is contained in another string: if (strpos($haystack, $needle) !== false) -- Christoph M. Becker