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*********@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

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.

--
Oli

[Justin Koivisto]

ra*********@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."
}

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