Which scheme according to you is a better one in case of matching?
Is it eregi or stripos or any other method?
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A:
That depends if you want to do exact match or regexp match.
- stripos is for case insensitive matching of string in another string
- eregi is case insensitive regexp matching in a string
- fnmatch is the third alternative. It's simple wildcard matching as in globbing.
Moreover, eregi is deprecated, is not binary safe and does not work well with UTF-8.
For regexp matching you should use preg_match with i flag instead.
vartec
2009-03-24 12:23:41
which one is prefferable in which situation??
terrific
2009-03-24 12:25:09
If you just need to do a simple substring match, then stripos or strpos are probably best.If you need to match on something more complicated, like matching a pattern of characters, then regular expressions could be the better choice.
Chris AtLee
2009-03-24 12:29:47
eregi is deprecated? huh?
SilentGhost
2009-03-24 12:42:39
@SilentGhost: http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.regex.php "Note: As of PHP 5.3.0 this extension is deprecated, calling any function provided by this extension will issue an E_DEPRECATED notice"
vartec
2009-03-24 12:45:30
@vartec: oh, thanks. 5.3.0 is not released yet though :)
SilentGhost
2009-03-24 13:07:35
yeah, but soon. the problem with ereg is that it doesn't work well with UTF8
vartec
2009-03-24 13:14:59