Question

for my purposes I did this:

<?php
$mystring = 'Gazole,';
$findme   = 'Sans Plomb 95';
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);

if ($pos >= 0) {
    echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
    echo " and exists at position $pos";
} else {
    echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
}
?>

However, it always executes this branch:

echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
echo " and exists at position $pos";

although the string I ‘m searching for doesn’t exist.

Please help, thx in advance :))

Answer 1

The correct way to do it is:

if ($pos !== false) {
    echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
    echo " and exists at position $pos";
} else {
    echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
}

See the giant red warning in the documentation.