Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 11/11/07 00:45

Brendan Gillatt wrote:
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> ross.oneill@gmail.com wrote:
>> Thanks for your response. But if in your example
>> strVar "Bob is from Canada" -- would return true when I want it to
>> return false.
>>
> *borrowing Krustov's code as template*
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> $demo="Bob is from Los Angeles CA";
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> $qaz=" CA"; // note the extra space
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> $wsx=strpos($qaz,$demo);
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> if ($wsx==true) {print "exact match found";}
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How about "CAnada".

Faced with this sort of thing in 'C' I decided that learning to write a
regexp when I could already write C was bollocks:

You have to decide what is allowable before and after the 'CA" that
makes it a complete word, not part of something else.

In C the ispunct(), isspace() and '\0' macros proved useful.

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