Start With and End With

[prokhaled]

How can I test if string start with "<" and end with ">" and print true if that true.


$Text="<hi how are you>"; // true

$Text=" any <hi how are you>"; // false

$Text="<hi how are you> any"; // false

[The Hobo]

Like this:

$s[] = "<boooam>asdf";
$s[] = "abbb<aoom>";
$s[] = "<funk>";

for ($i = 0; $i < count($s); $i++) {
    if (preg_match("/^<(.*)>$/i", $s[$i])) {
        echo htmlspecialchars($s[$i]) . " : true<br>\n";
    } else {
        echo htmlspecialchars($s[$i]) . ": false<br>\n";
    }
}

Edit: Changed code.

[phpman]

here we go again

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by phpman
here we go again

lol, that was my first reaction, too.

[silva]

Another method:

$text="<hi how are you>";
if(substr($text,0,1) == "<" && substr($text,-1) == ">") 
    echo "True<br>";
else 
    echo "False<br>";

$text=" any <hi how are you>"; // false 
if(substr($text,0,1)=="<" && substr($text,-1)==">") 
    echo "True<br>";
else 
    echo "False<br>";

$text="<hi how are you> any"; // false
if(substr($text,0,1)=="<" && substr($text,-1)==">") 
    echo "True<br>";
else 
    echo "False<br>"; 

Of course you could also loop through an array, with this function, similar to how Hobo did it above.

s.