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GreyFox135

Hi Everyone!

Quick question:

I want to add a wild card in a script I'm writing. Here's an example:


<?php
 	$phone = Phone number;

  	if ($phone == "805" . WILDCARD HERE) {
    	        DO SOMETHING;
	} else {
		DO SOMETHING ELSE;
	}
?>

I'm very new to PHP and tried looking up a wildcard via google, but to no avail.

Can anyone help me out?

Thnx!

TT_Mark

I'm guessing you should be looking for something like strpos().

So the code would be

if (strpos($phone, '805') != FALSE){

} else {

}

GreyFox135

Umm, well...

I want to check if someone's number starts with 805. Any number after that is irrelevant. It's the area code I'm interested in. I can't have it return false.

Maybe something like this?

if ($phone == "805" . *)

this doesn't work :/

ImpInaBox

Try...

  if ((substr($phone, 0, 3) == "805")
    ...

or look at substr_compare().

GreyFox135

I decided to use string compare:


<?php
 	$phone = Phone number;

  	if (strncmp("805", $phone, 2) == "0") {
    	   DO SOMETHING
	} else {
	   DO SOMETHING ELSE
	}
?>

This worked like a charm

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