Even better, try strstr...it'll be faster than a regexp for a simple 
search of a string for another string.

-jack

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Talltorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2001 7:20 pm
Subject: Re: [PHP] search string

> I think you want regular expressions...
> 
> Try this on for size:
> $str = "http://www.yahoo.com/somedir/somepage.html";
> 
> if (preg_match("/www.yahoo.com/i", $str)) {
> print "Your submission cannot be accepted";
> } else {
> print "You are good";
> }
> 
> If you want to read up on regular expressions:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php (Faster than ereg)
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php
> 
> // Tobias Talltorp
> 
> 
> ""Joseph Bannon"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > What is the function to search a string? Basically, I want 
> search a string
> > (a url) to see if it has "www.yahoo.com" in it and if yes, tell 
> the user
> > their submission cannot be accepted.
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> >
> >
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