String 'starts with' function

[Paul Morrison]

Hi

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?

Cheers,

Paul

[Erwin Moller]

Paul Morrison wrote:

Hi

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?

Cheers,

Paul

Hi Paul,

You can do this in many way, but the easiest way is just get the first
character of the string using substr(), and compare it to what you want.

It is here:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

if (substr('abcd',0,1) == 'a') ...

(Of course, if you like regexpr you can use them too. search for regexpr at
www.php.net for regexpr-functions)
Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

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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?

Have another look at the substr() function, and at the "==" operator.

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[Marcin Dobrucki]

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

[Paul Morrison]

Cheers for your help guys, problem solved!

Paul

You can do this in many way, but the easiest way is just get the first
character of the string using substr(), and compare it to what you want.

It is here:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

if (substr('abcd',0,1) == 'a') ...

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Erwin Moller wrote:

if (substr('abcd',0,1) == 'a') ...

Or simply:

$str = 'abcd';

if ($str{0} == 'a') ...
JW