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phpregexvalidationpreg-matchdelimited

Match one of two whole integers in a string of pipe-delimited, pipe-wrapped integers

I have stored as |1|7|11|.

I need to use preg_match(( to check |7| is there or |11| is there etc.

How do I do this?

Solution

  • Use the faster strpos if you only need to check for the existence of two numbers.

    if(strpos($mystring, '|7|') !== FALSE AND strpos($mystring, '|11|') !== FALSE)
{
    // Found them
}

    Or using slower regex to capture the number

    preg_match('/\|(7|11)\|/', $mystring, $match);

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