Wildcards in if statements

tiburblium

Is it possible to make an if statement contain a wildcard comparison?

Here is what i want to do.

if ($variable == "$variable2")
{

}

is this possible?

Thanks

paulsbooker

you should find what you want in the php manual

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php

kind regards
paul

tiburblium

Ive gone over that page already and mabey I missed it but I couldnt find anything that delt with wildcards in strings, yes i could probably cut out the middle of a string but it would be much easier if I could do it with wildcards. If there isn't a way i guess i can work on the alternative which is parsing the strings but if there is a way to do this:

if ($variable == "$variable2")
{

}

id love to know!

paulsbooker

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php

how about strpos() ?

kind regards
paul

tekky

to use wildcards.... check out ereg()

tiburblium

thanks guys that did the trick