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From: Marc Delisle [mailto:DelislMa@CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca]
gettype( ) works on variables, but the case we
have is:
if(strpos($whatWeWant, $typeSeperator) === FALSE) {
I don't know if it works on expressions and constants.
Anyway, looking at the code, we usually workaround this
strpos problem with the "append a blank" trick:
if (strpos(' ' . $goto, 'tbl_properties') == 1) {
Marc
Of course, it does. gettype() checks the type of the expression. A
variable is also an expression, just like a function call, a mathmatic
operation or whatever.
I'm taking your example and using my workaround:
if (strpos($whatWeWant, $typeSeperator) == FALSE &&
gettype(strpos($whatWeWant, $typeSeperator)) == gettype(FALSE)) {
Of course, we can make this a bit shorter:
$tmp = strpos($whatWeWant, $typeSeperator);
if (!$tmp && gettype($tmp) == 'boolean') {
But our usual workaround for the strpos problem is this one:
if (!strpos(' ' . $whatWeWant, $typeSeperator)) {
Your code above appears incorrect to me because we want to have the case
that the needle string does not appear in the haystack string, don't we?
So 1 is wrong, it has to be 0 or FALSE (doesn't matter since 0 == FALSE
:o) ).
Alexander M. Turek
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Ok Alexander. I have merged this, and usually we should use \xff
instead of a blank because chances are lower that we find a real \xff:
if(!strpos("\xff" . $whatWeWant, $typeSeperator)) {
Marc