there a better way to search in array other than array_search() ??

[dsaba]

$array = array('hellohowareyoudoingtoday', 'helo');
$findLo = array_search('lo', $array);
if ($findLo == FALSE) {
echo 'did not find it! uh oh!';
}

 

 

This returns "did not find it!'

 

Is there a better way to search inside of arrays to imitate strstr() ??

 

 

 

[rarebit]

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-grep.php

[dbo]

What are you trying to do exactly? Would you want an array returned of all tokens that contained a match when running strstr over it?

[teng84]

the way you do it array search will always fail, you have to explode it or divide those character

[dsaba]

function find_needle_inArray($array, $needle) {

foreach ($array as $v) {

$findIt = strstr($v, $needle);

if ($findIt == FALSE) {

$boolean = 'set';

break;

}

if (!isset($boolean)) {

return TRUE;

} else {

return FALSE;

}

 

would this be faster than that regex function?

}

[Jessica]

http://php.net/in_array

[teng84]

http://php.net/in_array

??????

[dsaba]

guru VS. proficient

 

proficient wins! what were you thinking jesirose? lol

[Jessica]

http://php.net/in_array

??????

 

omg I can use smilies too. Check it out. :D :D :o :o ;D ;D

 

After rereading the OP, I think you would have to write your own function that would loop through the array and use strstr().

[rarebit]

$a = array('hellohowareyoudoingtoday', 'helo');
$c=preg_grep("/lo/",$a);
if ($c == FALSE) {
echo 'did not find it! uh oh!'."<br>";
}
else
{
echo "did: "."<br>";
foreach($c as $e)
{
	echo "pos: ".$e."<br>";
}
}