Using "*" in php

[empire]

i wanted to make an if/then statement where the variable $IS could be many different things. the potential variables are 001001a, 001001b, 001001c,...., 002001a, etc. here is what i wanted to do:

if ($IS == "001*") {
then do this;
} elseif { $IS =="002*") {
then do that;
} etc

or would i have to type them all in like:

if ($IS =="001001a" or "001001b" or 001001c") {
blahblah

thanks

[Mordecai]

You want substr(). PHP does not handle wildcards.

[empire]

well, i found the answer so ill post...hopefully to save someone from the prob i had...
u have to use

if( ereg( '^001.*' , $IS ) )

[Mordecai]

Yeah, a regular expression would work just as well.