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Doc Bug #18705 More info in strstr()
Submitted: 2002-08-02 09:00 UTC Modified: 2003-01-20 13:59 UTC
From: ahristov at icygen dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.2.2 OS: All
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-08-02 09:00 UTC] ahristov at icygen dot com 
 Is it possible more information to be added to the docs of strstr() that it is better to look if there is needle in a haystack by using strpos() - in bold. Even small example.

Regards,
Andrey Hristov

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 [2002-08-02 11:43 UTC] kalowsky@php.net 
Feel free to write the part you would like to see, submit it to this bug, and it will hopefully (probably) be added to the documentation.
 [2002-08-03 06:38 UTC] ahristov at icygen dot com 
Attention : Keep in mind that when you want whether there is substring into string it is better to use strpos()
than to use strstr(). Most times users has problems to differentiate the cases where the substring is found at position 0
and in the case where it is not found. 

Example 2:
$needle = "I love";
$haystack = "I love PHP!";
//using strstr() - bad - exhaust of memory and cpu
if (strstr($haystack, $needle)){
	// found
}
//using strpos() - good no exhaust of memory
if (strpos($haystack, $needle) === TRUE){
	// found
}
-=-=-=-=-= End of example.
 [2003-01-20 13:59 UTC] pollita@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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