dk01 — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:42:21 +0000

Remember to use the trim() function too just incase there is a leading space

Glad to see you got what you were looking for!

-dk

Busy — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:34:08 +0000

Solution:

$str = "re: this is the topic";
$re = substr("$str", 0, 3);
if($re == 're:')
{
echo "this string starts with re:";
}

Busy — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 09:50:16 +0000

Thanks dk01, could be what I was looking for.

Greg K, am trying to find if the strings starts with 're:' (as in reply), but not return a result if included elsewhere in the string.

Greg K — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:23:29 +0000

I'm missing what you are actually trying to get from this example. (hey I just woke up, so I might be the brain dead one right now

From your example you are just wanting to see if it starts with RE: or RE: is one of the things you are looking for? Are you just needing to get up to the first colon if it exists (so you can get RE: and FWD: ?)

-Greg

dk01 — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:03:13 +0000

Check out the strpos() function and the substr() function.

Together I am sure they can do what you are looking for.

-dk

timjpriebe — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:47:14 +0000

Sounds like Perl would be perfect for this...

I'm not nearly as familiar with PHP, but I know in Perl you might have to put a backslash before the ":" to get Perl to recognize it.