Find a string, at the beginning of a string

[aximbigfan]

Sorry if this is not the right forum, dunno if this fit under RegExp or not.

 

Basically, I need a function to see if the beginnign of a string matches another string.

 

Let's say

$match = '/1/2/3/';

 

and the haystack is '1/2/3/4/5'. In this case, the function would return true, but in this case

haystack: '2/3/1/2/3' the function would return false.

 

Thanks,

Chris

[Bendude14]

have a read here

 

http://au.php.net/preg_match

[ibechane]

Don't use preg_match; it's overkill

 

Use strpos instead. It returns the position of a string within a string. Just test to make sure it's equal to 0.

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php

 

 

EDIT first position is 0, not 1

[aximbigfan]

Perfect, thanks!

 

Chris