[Solved] Adding a wild card in PHP

[GreyFox135]

Hi Everyone!

Quick question:

I want to add a wild card in a script I’m writing. Here’s an example:

$phone = Phone number;



if ($phone == "805" . WILDCARD HERE) {

DO SOMETHING;

} else {

DO SOMETHING ELSE;

}

?>

I’m very new to PHP and tried looking up a wildcard via google, but to no avail.

Can anyone help me out?

Thnx!

[GreyFox135]

Umm, well…

I want to check if someone’s number starts with 805. Any number after that is irrelevant. It’s the area code I’m interested in. I can’t have it return false.

Maybe something like this?

if ($phone == "805" . *)

this doesn’t work :/

[ImpInaBox]

Try…

  if ((substr($phone, 0, 3) == "805")

...

or look at substr_compare().

[GreyFox135]

I decided to use string compare:

$phone = Phone number;



if (strncmp("805", $phone, 2) == "0") {

DO SOMETHING

} else {

DO SOMETHING ELSE

}

?>

This worked like a charm

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