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Re: finding newlines

Message-ID <1626298.k0UxW9GDbk@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Date 2013-11-25 22:18 +0100
Subject Re: finding newlines
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
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bill wrote:

> I am trying to find the first line bread in a string
> where string = "Hand Carried by Patient\n\nTo Whom It May
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For some reason I read “tomato” there at first ;-)

> Concern:\n\nR...."
> 
> This code does not work: $pos = strpos($progressNote,"\n\n");
> it returns pos = false

No, it does not:

$ php -r 'var_dump(strpos("Hand Carried by Patient\n\nTo Whom It May", 
"\n\n"));'
int(23)
 
> where do I err?

  $progressNote !== "Hand Carried by Patient\n\n…"

PHP’s string functions are tricky; when in doubt, RTFM.


PointedEars
-- 
Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are
positively harmful for cross-browser scripting.
  -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> (2004)

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finding newlines bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2013-11-25 11:12 -0500
  Re: finding newlines Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-25 17:32 +0100
    Re: finding newlines bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2013-11-26 09:36 -0500
  Re: finding newlines Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2013-11-25 08:34 -0800
  Re: finding newlines Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 20:11 +0000
    Re: finding newlines Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-25 22:23 +0100
    Re: finding newlines Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 18:05 +0000
      Re: finding newlines Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-26 19:46 +0100
        Re: finding newlines Wizard-Of-Oz <somewhere@over.rainbow.com> - 2013-11-30 16:50 +0000
          Re: finding newlines Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-12-01 17:11 +0100
  Re: finding newlines Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-25 22:18 +0100
  Re: finding newlines Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-11-25 16:36 -0500
    Re: finding newlines bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2013-11-27 05:11 -0500
      Re: finding newlines Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-27 16:56 +0100
        Re: finding newlines bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2013-11-28 11:42 -0500
          Re: finding newlines Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-28 20:20 +0100
          Re: finding newlines Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-29 00:57 +0000
      Re: finding newlines Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-11-27 11:47 -0500
        Re: finding newlines bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2013-11-28 11:09 -0500

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