Array wild card search

[bird_man11]

Hi guys,

 

i have an array that i want to search

 

for example

 

$aacnbri = array("D99992001", "D00231119", "D99992100", "D00129123");

 

the first character is known and the last 4 digits are known, but the middle 4 arn't known

 

i was wondering how would i go about this, is there any way of using array_search() or in_array() with a wildcard? e.g "D****2001"

 

cheers

[Jessica]

I think you'll have to use regular expressions for this.

[bird_man11]

yeah i have tried using

 

in_array('/D[0-9]{4}2001/', $aacnbri);

and

array_search('/D[0-9]{4}2001/', $aacnbri);

 

but they do not seem to work,

 

i will just have to loop the array and use preg_match()

 

thanks