eregi problems?

[Anon]

Hey guys, i've been having this problem.. i try to use ereg to search every row that mysql dumbs to me and have it search for things that sart with a certain letter, and a certain letter only.. right now it looks like

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($mysql_result))
{
if (eregi("[[:<:]]$var.*", $row[0])
{
... prints out what ever i want that is in that row..
}
}

and that brings back a list of things that start with a letter.. say A but also brings other entrys that i do not want it to bring out. any ideas?

thanks!

[Anon]

Well, an easier way would probably be to do the following:

if you have the letter you want it to begin with in $var, say, "A", do:

If ((substr($row[0], 0, 1) == strtoupper($var)) || (substr($row[0], 0, 1) == strtolower($var))) {
// Print out results
}

No need to use ereg, it's much faster this way anyway. Hope that helps.

Chris King

[Anon]

You should anchor the ereg to the left with a '^':

if (eregi("^$var", $row[0])

Dario Gomes