Pattern matching strpos?

[Anon]

strpos works great for finding the first occurence of a string.

strpos($haystack, ".");

gets the first instance of "." in $haystack.

But let's say I want to get the first instance of period, comma, or space? I can't do

strpos($haystack, [\ ,.]);

and get an answer, and I've not been able to find any reasonable way to do this other than to do strpos three times and then compare results. (messy!)

Anybody have any ideas on how to solve this one?

-Ben

[Anon]

Hmm, what do you do with the position information once you've got it?

[Anon]

(This site is SLOW today!)

Using this to create links easily.

Instead of doing the whole href= thing and blah blah blah simply type

@@http://www.yahoo.com in the form input and it'll "automagically" be turned into a hyperlink. Where this falls down is when the string is terminated with other than a space - I have to do about a dozen checks in order to get what I need - and it sucks. (tho it works)