strstr vs. ereg

[Anon]

If you just want to do a simple string search is there any difference between using "strstr" or "ereg"? Are there performance issues?

<?
$name = 'William Jefferson Clinton';

if (strstr ($name,'Jeff')) {echo 'found it';}

or

if (ereg ('Jeff',$name)) {echo 'found it';}
?>

[Anon]

I've never used strstr, but ereg is like lightning. ZAP!

[niyogi]

I don't understand. You're saying it's damn fast, correct?

What's the difference? I'm using strstr() but now that I've landed on ereg() I'm considering that instead... I suppose the only difference is that strstr() points to the character where the "needle" string is found. ereg() just returns TRUE.

-S

[Anon]

ereg() is very fast. ereg() returns an array with your results.

$my_string = "[e-mail]";

ereg("^{[@]+",$my_string,$result);}

echo "$result";

Output:

someone

[Anon]

sorry. it should be

echo "$result[0]";