ID: 43825
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: anon at example dot com
-Status: Open
+Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5.2.5
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[2008-01-12 01:10:18] anon at example dot com
Description:
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What we often need to test for is just whether a substring exists or
not. For example this is very common in examining a user agent.
Currently you can use strpos, but you have to be careful to test only
with two specific formulations, using the strict equivalency
operators:
if (strpos($x, $y) === FALSE)
or
if (strpos($x, $y) !== FALSE)
That "anti-FALSE" approach is generally awkward, and if you use == or
!= by mistake you'll have ambiguity with a substring position of
number 0.
It would be handy and much less prone to syntax mistakes, to have a
dedicated "string exists" function which returns only TRUE or FALSE.
This might be "strex" or "strpres" ("string present").
Plus an equivalent case sensitive version -- striex or stripres.
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