Checking where '-' is in a string.

[ainars]

Thank you, ksandom. I did it and it works great.

Maybe you know what is the function to check that string '-' is not in the begginning and not in the end of word? I want that users when register an account can use string '-' only in the middle of word, for exapmle,

user-name = OK
my-user-name = OK

but

-username = NOT OK
-user-name = NOT OK
-user-name- = NOT OK

Thank you.

[Weedpacket]

This is a separate question? Should be in a separate thread.
You can look at individual characters of strings by giving the position of the string you want to look at. The characters of the two ends of $string are $string{0} (at the start) and $string{strlen($string)-1} (at the end).

[cosminb]

if (strpos($myString, '-') !== false && strpos($myString, '-') > 0 && strpos($myString, '-')<strlen($myString)-1)
{
 echo 'test passed';
}

[ainars]

Thank you very much!