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Attempt at finding period in string with strpos not working

I'm trying to find if there's a period in a string with strpos, but for some reason it prints out "There's no period." every time I run the code. I'm not sure what I did wrong.

$text = "Hello.";

if (strpos($text, "." !== false)) {
echo "There's a period.";
}
else {
echo "There's no period.";
}

Expected result 

There's a period.

Actual result 

There's no period.
Solution

  • Your parenthesis are not matching correctly.

    With the way you have it right now, you are passing the result of "." !== false as the second argument to strpos.

    Change

    if (strpos($text, "." !== false)) {

    to

    if (strpos($text, ".") !== false) {