Posted by bissatch on 10/18/05 13:54

I am trying to compare two variable but using regular expression:

$access = "glasgow"

$areaid = "glasgow-westend-byers_rd"

using the two variables, I would like the areaid variable to be
compared with the access variable. the regular expression function will
return true if $access matches the start of $areaid. So the two above
would return true

The following would also return true:

$access = "glasgow-westend"

$areaid = "glasgow-westend-byers_rd"

or

$areaid = "glasgow-westend-greatwestern_rd"

However, the following should return false though:

$access = "glasgow"

$areaid = "stirling-glasgow_rd"

Although the value for $access, 'glasgow', appears in the $areaid it
does not appear at the start.


If I were to do this in SQL it would be something like:

$select = "SELECT * FROM areas WHERE areaid LIKE '" . $access . '%"

Note the use of '%' at the end of the compare LIKE field

Unfortunetely I have never been able to properly get my head round
regular expressions.

Any help?

Cheers, burnsy

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