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ktsirig · Apr 25th, 2006, 5:30 AM

Hi all!
What I want to ask might be rather silly, but I have come across it a couple of days now and don't seem to find any solution.
Consider the following variables :

$var1= "ps :Hello and welcome to greece";
$var2= "ps :Hello and";
$var3= "ps :It was nice to meeting you";

My problem is that, when I check $var2, it matches both $var1 and $var3, because , as you can see, $var3 has "ps" in it.
So, I was wondering if there is a way of matching ENTIRE $var2 and not just portions of it. In this way, it would match only $var1 and not $var3...

Apr 25th, 2006, 5:30 AM	#1
ktsirig Programmer Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 54 Rep Power: 4	match entire string in PHP Hi all! What I want to ask might be rather silly, but I have come across it a couple of days now and don't seem to find any solution. Consider the following variables : $var1= "ps :Hello and welcome to greece"; $var2= "ps :Hello and"; $var3= "ps :It was nice to meeting you"; My problem is that, when I check $var2, it matches both $var1 and $var3, because , as you can see, $var3 has "ps" in it. So, I was wondering if there is a way of matching ENTIRE $var2 and not just portions of it. In this way, it would match only $var1 and not $var3...