When performing a string search with strpos() on a string variable the function totally ignores the first character. For example:

$astring = "abc defg hij kl";

if (strpos($astring, "abc")) {
  echo("found\n");
} else {
  echo("not found\n");
}


When running the above script "not found" is echoed instead when, in fact, "found" should be echoed. Here's my ./configure from phpinfo():

./configure' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php.standalone' '--disable-pear' '--enable-versioning' '--with-system-regex' '--disable-debug' '--enable-track-vars' '--without-gd' '--without-mysql' '--with-zlib' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--enable-ftp' '--with-curl=/usr/local' '--enable-sockets' '--prefix=/usr/local' 'i386--freebsd4.3'

A possible workaround would be:


$astring = "abc defg hij kl";
$astring = " " . $astring;

if (strpos($astring, "abc")) {
  echo("found\n");
} else {
  echo("not found\n");
}

The above code echoes "found".


Regards,
Aragon Gouveia