There's a string, $string = 'Foo, Bar, Test,'; All I want to do is to count the number of the commas within a string. But everything leads to infinite while loop. So, I've tried #1: $count ...

I'm new here. Anyway, I did my research on fwrite(), but I couldn't find solution, so i'm asking for help. What I want is f.e. to add a new line of text after some other specific line. F.e. I have ...

Say I have a long UTF-8 encoded string. And say I want to detect if $var exists in this string. Assuming $var is always going to be simple letters or numbers of ascii characters (e.g. "hello123")...

if(strpos("http://www.example.com","http://www.")==0){ // do work} I'd expect this to resolve as true, which it does. But what happens when I do if(strpos("abcdefghijklmnop","http://www.")==0){/...

I'm trying to search a PHP file for a string and when that string is found I want to return the whole LINE that the string is on. Here is my example code. I'm thinking I would have to use exp...

I want to get the scripts to search the $open_email_msg which different e-mails will have different info but the same format as below. I haven't really used regex much, but what i want to do is w...

I'm using strpos() to find the position of a string in another string. I first check if the string is found at all in there. Here's my line: if ( strpos($grafik['data'], $ss1) <> false &amp...

How to find positions of a character in a string or sentence in php $char = 'i'; $string = 'elvis williams'; $result = '3rd ,7th and 10th'. I tried strpos..but no use..

Huh, looking at all those string functions, sometimes I get confused. One is using all the time mb_ functions, the other - plain ones, so the question is simple... When should I use mb_strpos(); a...

In PHP there's a useful strpos function that finds the position of first occurrence of a string. Is there a similar way to do this in Ruby?

I'm dealing with an annoying database where one field contains what really should be stored two separate fields. So the column is stored something like "The first string~@~The second string", where...