form help

[mike1313]

is there anyway to check if the beginning of whatever the user inputs is a space like.

 

Instead of "Hello World"

 

they input " Hello World"

 

I need a way of checking if the space is there first and I'm not talking about trim();

[eon201]

$findme = ' Hello World'; //notice the white space
$hellofinder = stripos($your_string, $findme);

if ($hellofinder === false){
echo "Im not here!";
}

else{
echo "Im here!";
}

 

You could then use the str_replace function to change ' Hello World' to 'Hello World' if needed.

 

Hope that helps.