Probably a quick question

[jay.barnes]

$cityandstate = "New York, NY";
if (preg_match(",",$cityandstate))
{
     echo "true";
}

 

returns "Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: No ending delimiter ',' found in test.php on line 37"

 

what am I doing wrong, here???

[Daniel0]

You need a delimiter, i.e. a pair of characters that delimit the pattern. It could for instance be # in which case it would look like:

preg_match('#,#', $cityandstate)

 

The function strpos is better suited for this task though.

[mikesta707]

I would just use strpos() or stristr() to check if there is a comma in that string, as they are faster.

 

$cityandstate = "New York, NY";
if (str_pos($cityandstate, ",") === true)
{
     echo "true";
}

[JonnoTheDev]

I would just use strpos() or stristr() to check if there is a comma in that string, as they are faster.

 

$cityandstate = "New York, NY";
if (str_pos($cityandstate, ",") === true)
{
     echo "true";
}

 

$cityandstate = "New York, NY";
if(strpos($cityandstate, ",")) {
echo "true";
}

 

[mikesta707]

oops, didn't think it had an underscore, but thought I saw it somewhere. yeah sorry for incorrect code

[jay.barnes]

AAhhh...I understand now...I thought ($cityandstate, ",") was setting the comma as the delimiter - I read the manual page wrong.

 

I"m basically trying to find out if a string contains a comma, and, if it does, execute some commands

 

I'll look at strpos(), and see if that better suits my needs.

 

Thanks for your help, guys!