Re: Re: strange stripos behavior

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On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 20:03 -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> For another guru, I have a question.  I just checked the returns of this
> func on php.net to check myself and I see:
> 
> This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a
> non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "".
> 
> When would stripos() return "" ?

It wouldn't. What it means is that if you use == to test the return
value then you won't know if the string failed to match or if it matched
at index 0. Instead you should use === false to check for failure.

Cheers,
Rob.
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