StrPos Help

[ralphNOSPAM]

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

[Oli Filth]

ra*********@pri memail.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

Of course it's zero! ;) You're asking it to find the character offset
of "<codeFacility> " within $php_XML_tag, and it's telling you that it's
0, i.e. right at the beginning of the string.

Try looking at regular expressions in the PHP manual, or possibly even
the dedicated XML functions.

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Oli

[Justin Koivisto]

ra*********@pri memail.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 - ju****@koivi.co m
http://koivi.com