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PHP wildcard?

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wondering, does the * symbol (asterix) represent a wildcard in php, otherwise, how could i use a wildcard?

so that something like this could be accomplished…

if ($var == ‘.*.’value’.*.’) {foo;}

above, the foo would be executed if $var equaled anything with the word "value" in it. So, foo would be executed if $var equaled "values" or "blablavalueblabla" etc.

Thanks for your response

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daa on Feb 06, 2012

What you’re looking for is a regular expression. Here’s a decent tutorial:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/regular-expressions-php

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Robin T on Feb 06, 2012

You can just use strpos() to check if a substring exists within a string.

if (strpos($var, "value") !== false) { foo(); }

More on strpos(): http://www.php.net/strpos

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