Help with stripos

[crusty76]

I thought it would be simple but it isn't.  I have the code (example)

 

<?PHP

$search="a";

$total = "aNbh jK ";

if( stripos(" " .$total,$search,0) == TRUE) {

echo"found";

} else {

echo "Not found";

}

?>

 

The result is 'Not found'. It should be found surely?

If $search ="n" it works.!

What am I doing wrong please.

Crusty

 

[litebearer]

I think using === (3 equal signs) will cure that, it has to do with false and 0 (zero) which is the pos of first character, somehow eqauting to same when you use 2 equals signs

[crusty76]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Tried that and unfortunately, it doesn't work. Seems it wont find a character which is the first character in '$haystack' In my case $total.

 

Any other thoughts please. I'm getting frustrated with thus simple(?) problem.

Thanks

Crusty

 

<?PHP

$search="a";

$total = "aNbh jK ";

if( stripos(" " .$total,$search,0) === TRUE) {

echo"found";

} else {

echo "Not found";

}

?>

[siric]

Tried it and works for me.

[mattal999]

<?php

$search = "a";
$total = "aNbh jK ";
if(stripos(" ".$total, $search) !== false) { // Manual states using 3 signs, and it will not return true if found, but instead a number.
    echo "Found";
} else {
    echo "Not found";
}

?>

[litebearer]

quote from the manual...

Warning

This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "". Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.stripos.php

 

might try using >=0  rather than 'true/false'

 

[crusty76]

Thanks everyone....

 

using

 

if( stripos($total,$search,0) !== FALSE)

 

Seems to work.

Much obliged..

Crusty