preg_match() question

[robert_gsfame]

I have this

$val="my friend is a female";

 

how to check whether a word "male" is there or not using preg_match()

 

i wish to get FALSE result for that case and TRUE if i modify a bit into

$val="both male/female"

 

thx in advance!

 

 

[laffin]

not shure wut u mean. but here is a function, checks for female/male

 

<?php

$val="male";

$gender=preg_match('/\b(?:fe)?male/',$val,$match)?(substr($match[0],0,1)=='m'?1:2):FALSE;

echo $gender .PHP_EOL;

echo ($gender==1?'Male'$gender==2?'Female':'Other')) . PHP_EOL;

?>

 

[robert_gsfame]

i want to use preg_match() to check whether $val consists of a word "male" or not and i wish this way

 

$val="my friend is a female" ---> FALSE

$val="both male/female" -----> TRUE

 

 

[laffin]

break the routine apart, it can be modified for those needs. the hard part the regex pattern is already working.

if u know that preg_match returns 0 or 1 (0 no match, 1 match) than its not hard to figure out the rest.