et Fri Jun 20 11:10:42 2003 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/functions preg-match.xml
Log:
added a note
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/functions/preg-match.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/functions/preg-match.xml:1.5
phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/functions/preg-match.xml:1.6
--- phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/functions/preg-match.xml:1.5 Mon Jun 16 16:03:02
2003
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/functions/preg-match.xml Fri Jun 20 11:10:41 2003
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
<!-- splitted from ./en/functions/pcre.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
<refentry id="function.preg-match">
<refnamediv>
@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@
<parameter>subject</parameter>.
<function>preg_match</function> returns &false; if an error occured.
</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Do not use <function>preg_match</function> if you only want to check if
+ one string is contained in another string. Use <function>strpos</function>
+ or <function>strstr</function> instead.
+ </para>
+ </note>
<para>
<example>
<title>Find the string of text "php"</title>
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