On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|You could try any number of PHP functions, but the best ones would be
|strchr/strstr/stristr (for locating the first occurrence of the string),
|strpos (find the position of the first occurrence), or strrchr (to find the
|last).
|
I was just using something like below. Seems to work to find the string
anywhere in the name. Am I missing something or is it really that simple?
Bryan
<?php
$name = "John Smith";
$search = "smi";
if (eregi("$search", $name)) {
echo "$search is in $name\n";
} else {
echo "$search is NOT in $name\n";
}
?>
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