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Request #19002 like operator
Submitted: 2002-08-20 18:29 UTC Modified: 2002-08-20 18:31 UTC
From: cxw at seekthru dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 4.1.2 OS: any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-08-20 18:29 UTC] cxw at seekthru dot com 
I think it would be a good feature to have the syntax like the following:

if ($var like "%abc"){

}

or as an operator:

if ($var ~ "abc%") {

}

This is similar to the like syntax in SQL.

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 [2002-08-20 18:31 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
Argh!  No inline regular expressions or magical operators please.  There are functions to do this, call them.
 
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