I'm trying to search within strings to find strings that contain any of a set of words, and none of another set.
So far, I'm using nested stripos statements, like this:
if(stripos($name, "Name", true))
{
if((stripos($name, "first", true)) || (stripos($name, "for", true)) || (stripos($name, "1", true)))
{
if(stripos($name, "error"))
{
Not only does this not really work, it also seems needlessly verbose.
Is there any way that I can construct a simple string to say "if this string contains any of these words, but none of these words, then do this"?
You can easily condense this as such;
if(
stripos($name, "Name", true) &&
(stripos($name, "first", true)) || (stripos($name, "for", true)) || (stripos($name, "1", true)) &&
stripos($name, "error")
)
{
/* Your code */
}
You could also do the following which would work better (IMO);
if(
stristr($name, "Name") &&
(stristr($name, "first") || stristr($name, "for") || stristr($name, "1")) &&
stristr($name, "error")
)
{
/* Your code */
}