RE: [PHP] Check if a word is in my string.

> use: > preg_match('/\Wgood\W/',$var); > or > preg_match('/\bgood\b/',$var); Or, you could just try strstr($haystack, $needle) ... Jason -- Jason Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer, Melbourne IT "Work now, freak later!" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubs

Re: [PHP] Check if a word is in my string.

Hi, use: preg_match('/\Wgood\W/',$var); or preg_match('/\bgood\b/',$var); I don't know exactly. - Original Message - From: Brandon Orther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PHP User Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:02 AM Subject: [PHP] Check if a word is in my

RE: [PHP] Check if a word is in my string.

> -Original Message- > From: daniel james [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:11 PM > To: Brandon Orther; PHP User Group > Subject: Re: [PHP] Check if a word is in my string. > > > if you're just looking for the 1st occurrence of the &g

Re: [PHP] Check if a word is in my string.

if you're just looking for the 1st occurrence of the string, it's-- $check = "good"; $var = "This is a good..."; if (!strstr($var, $check)) { print("$check not found"); } also, i think strstr() is case-insensitive, so it won't be able to differentiate between 'Good' and 'good', and will NOT ret

Re: [PHP] Check if a word is in my string.

see : http://www.php.net/strstr http://www.php.net/stristr Regards, Philip On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Brandon Orther wrote: > Hello, > > I have a variable with a string in it. I want to check if in that > string a certain word is in it. Example > > $var = "This is a good sentence"; > >