Posted by My Pet Programmer on 12/28/07 14:51

Iván Sánchez Ortega said:
> My Pet Programmer wrote:
>
>>>> I was reading php.net for a way to find a number of characters in a
>>>> strings. Say I want to look for a b and c ind $string.
>>>> As far as I could see, there is no function for that.
>>> preg_match("[abc]",$subject);
>> That will only tell you if any of the characters are in the string. Do
>> you have one that will say whether all of them are in the haystack?
>
> Are you looking for http://php.net/count_chars ??
>
> What are you trying to do, exactly?
>
Oh, for me it was just idle curiosity. I'm not sure what the OP is after.

~A!

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