|  | Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 06/18/05 23:32 
On Sat, June 18, 2005 10:11 am, Merlin said:> I am trying to find out how to match a search on : 5a or 5b with array
 > search.
 > Basicly I would like to make it true as soon as the function finds a value
 > starting with 5.
 >
 > As for now I have:
 > if (array_search('5a', $emsg) OR array_search('5b', $emsg)){
 > ...
 >
 > that statement will get very long till z :-)
 >
 > Any ideas how to make something like this:
 > array_search('5*', $emsg)
 
 I believe that in recent versions of PHP, the preg_* functions will accept
 an array as an argument... Or maybe I dreamed that.
 
 You should benchmark the solutions and also consider just using implode()
 on the array to make a giant string and search that.
 
 Depending on a lot of factors, any of these could out-perform the others.
 
 Try it with data as close to real-world as you can get.
 
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