strpos confusion

[Arc]

I am trying to detect if a certain character is at the begining of a string. basically like this

If(strpos($txtEquip,"+")==0){
$Equip="ADD";
}elseif(strpos($txtEquip,"-")==0){
   $Equip="SUBTRACT";
}

If a char is found at the beggining of a string strpos returns 0, BUT apparently it also returns 0 (i.e. false) even if it isn't found at the begging of the string. SO this is making my code always return "ADD" even if the first char is actually a "-" sign.

Am I doing something wrong here or is strpos thing screwy?

Thanks!😃

[laserlight]

if (strpos($txtEquip,"+") === 0) {
	$Equip = "ADD";
} elseif (strpos($txtEquip,"-") === 0) {
	$Equip = "SUBTRACT";
}

An alternative, assuming that you're certain that $txtEquip contains at least 1 character:

if ($txtEquip{0} == "+") {
	$Equip = "ADD";
} elseif ($txtEquip{0} == "-") {
	$Equip = "SUBTRACT";
}

[Arc]

Cool, that extra "=" sign did the trick.

Thanks!😃