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strpos() === true returns false even when there is a match

I have this:

$fi2 = "/var/www/server/poll/ips.txt"; //IP file
$mystring = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; //IP according to server
$findme = file_get_contents($fi2);
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);
if ($pos === true) {
    echo "Found";
} else {    
    echo "not found"; 
}

However, it does not say "not found" even if the IP matches something in the text file. I have done

echo "$mystring $findme";

And it outputs my IP and the text file correctly.

I have been told that I should replace 

if ($pos === true) {

with 

if ($pos !== false) {

Which I did and it still does not work.

Here's the code I used to save to the text file:

//Record IP
$fi2 = "/var/www/server/poll/ips.txt"; //IP file
file_put_contents($fi2, "\r\n$mystring", FILE_APPEND); //Stick it onto the IP file
Solution

  • I just figured it out myself.

    I changed 

    file_put_contents($fi2, "\r\n$mystring", FILE_APPEND); //Stick it onto the IP file

    To

    file_put_contents($fi2, "$mystring", FILE_APPEND); //Stick it onto the IP file

    I don't know why this fixed it (just starting PHP) but that's the reason it's broken, so if someone proposes an answer to fix it with the original line I'll accept it.

    Changing $pos === true to $pos !== false also was required.