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Bug #44427 stripos() and strpos() do not return false when needle is not found
Submitted: 2008-03-13 10:31 UTC Modified: 2008-03-13 12:38 UTC
From: garichner at i2pmail dot org Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: S.u.S.E. 10.3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-03-13 10:31 UTC] garichner at i2pmail dot org 
Description:
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stripos strpos don't do false on needle not found

foreach ($buffer_Infile1 as $VAL1) {
    	        foreach ($VAL1 as $VAL2){
    	            $VAL2=trim($VAL2);
    	            $POSP=stripos($VAL1[0],".");
    	            echo $VAL2." ".$POSP."\n";
    	        }
does this

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but should to this

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Reproduce code:
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foreach ($buffer_Infile1 as $VAL1) {
    	        foreach ($VAL1 as $VAL2){
    	            $VAL2=trim($VAL2);
    	            $POSP=stripos($VAL1[0],".");
    	            echo $VAL2." ".$POSP."\n";
    	        }

Expected result:
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Actual result:
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 [2008-03-13 11:54 UTC] jani@php.net 
Please provide a short but _complete_ reproducing script. (one that starts with <?php, ends with ?> and can be simply copy'n'pasted to run.
 [2008-03-13 12:38 UTC] garichner at i2pmail dot org 
foreach ($buffer_Infile1 as $VAL1) {
    	        foreach ($VAL1 as $VAL2){
    	            $VAL2=trim($VAL2);
    	            $POSP=stripos($VAL2,".");//<<<<<<<<
    	            echo $VAL2." ".$POSP."\n";
    	        }

this is the output 

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solved
 
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