Yes, I understand that, but it said that "this function" may return 0 or "". So I guess that is just a generic statement to illustrate the point.
-Shawn Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 20:03 -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: >> For another guru, I have a question. I just checked the returns of this >> func on php.net to check myself and I see: >> >> This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a >> non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "". >> >> When would stripos() return "" ? > > It wouldn't. What it means is that if you use == to test the return > value then you won't know if the string failed to match or if it matched > at index 0. Instead you should use === false to check for failure. > > Cheers, > Rob. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
