wildcard help????

Anon

I'm trying to do the following and it's not working.

if ($compare_product == '%'){
echo ("UDL packages trade name product\n");
}

So basically i'm saying that if $compare_product begins with *** then print the message.

Any ideas?

Thanks

pgudge

use substr()

if (substr(0,3,$compare_product == "***"))
{
print yer stuff.
}

chad wrote:

I'm trying to do the following and it's not working.

if ($compare_product == '%'){
echo ("UDL packages trade name product\n");
}

So basically i'm saying that if $compare_product begins with *** then print the message.

Any ideas?

Thanks

junebug

$check = ereg('^{***[:alpha:]+',} $compare_product);
if($check)
print "***UDL packages trade name product\n";

http://www.php.net/ereg

Anon

This does the same thing mine did. It doesn't return the result?

Anon

Is doesn't return any results and I've verified that *** is at the begining of a couple entries

pgudge

Whoops!!!! my bad

it should be

if (substr($compare_product, 0,3) == "***"))
{
print yer stuff.
}

got the string and the two arguments mixed up, sorry for the cock up.

This works fine.

Anon

thanks

gid__

Just FYI, it's good practice to use regex functions only when absolutely necessary, so you don't incure the overhead of the regex engine. This allows for faster, more efficient php code. In this case's Paul's suggestion using substr() should be more than sufficient.