is this a valid if statement?

[levans]

Just wondering why the third condition never works...

the first and second condition work no problem

if($tok == "<answer>")
{
							$answer_check = 1;
}
if($answer_check == 1)
{
							echo("<p> $tok </p>");
}
if($tok == "</answer>")
{
							$answer_check = 0;
}

there defenitly is an instance of </answer> so it should go in, is there a character i have to put in front of the '/' or anything. I have looked everywhere...

[Mordecai]

Nope, that should work fine. Try echoing out $tok to make sure you don't have a stray character in there (perhaps whitespace).

[levans]

hey, i echod the output right before the

echo($tok);
if($tok == "</answer>")
{
$answer_check = 0;
echo 'here';
}

and its value was: </answer>

😕 😕 😕

why oh why

anyone had this problem b4?

[drawmack]

try using eregi instead like this

if (eregi("\<\/answer\>",$tok)) {
    $answer_check = 0;
}

that way if $tok is '</answer> ' or ' </answer>' or '</aNsWeR>' it will still work.

[levans]

thanks a lot, works great😃