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Posted by Chuck Anderson on 08/09/06 18:22
Phil Latio wrote:
> How do I use wildcards when searching in array? At least that's what I think
> I need !!
>
> I have the line:
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> if ($attribute[0] != "id")
>
> The above is not 100% correct because it should also be looking for anything
> ending with id. eg. bookid or authorid aswell as just id.
>
> Should I be looking at regular expressions? I've never covered (well not
> knowlingly) regular expressions before and wouldn't know one if it came up
> and hit me around the face with a wet kipper.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction.
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
>
>
>
If you've described this accurately then
if (substr($attribute[0], -2) != 'id')
should work.
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