You could also try using a regular expression to get out whatever you need
(if it's a string). Something like the following:
preg_match_all("/[abc|def|ghi]/",$type, $matches);
- Steve
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> Hi, I would like to check whether a variable, $type, is equal to a
> number of different possible states. I know I could use
> if ( $type == "abc" || $type == "bcd") { $a = b }
> but this would get a bit clumsy if I had to check whether it is say
> one of 20 different things.
>
> What I was wondering is, is there a better way of doing this? I will
> occasionally need to add another option as well, although I don't mind
> a simple code edit.
>
>
> Cheers for your help, Donald
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