Posted by Marcin Dobrucki on 03/09/06 12:46

Paul Morrison wrote:

> I have looked at the PHP string functions and I cant see any function to
> check to see whether a string starts with a certain letter or letters. Is
> there any way of doing this with the built in functions?

preg_match("/^[a-z]/",$string); // strings starting with a,b,c...,z

or whatever you want the string to start with.

/Marcin

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