Posted by Justin Koivisto on 10/10/05 20:42

ralphNOSPAM@primemail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to use strpos to find these xml tags so I can pull out the
> text data; but the bracket chars won't let the function work. Is there
> another way to do this?
>
> $php_XML_tag = "<codeFacility>ZNY</codeFacility>";
> $pos = strpos($php_XML_tag, '<codeFacility>');
> print $pos;
>
> results is $pos == 0
>

That's the correct result... if the function was failing, you'd get a
boolean FALSE instead...

$pos = strpos($php_XML_tag, '<codeFacility>');
if($pos===FALSE){
// the function call failed (not found)
}else{
echo "Pattern starts at character offset $pos of the string."
}

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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.com
http://koivi.com

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