Find if one string is substr of another using strpos

Question

I have the following statement to check if $word_to_compare is a substring of $word .

if(strpos($word,$word_to_compare)!==false)
    {
            echo"Match found";
            }

The above logic does not return a match for $word_to_compare = achiev and $word = achievement

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I tested this and it worked for me.

<?php
 $word = "achievement";
 $word_to_compare = "achiev";
 if(strpos($word,$word_to_compare)!==false){
   echo"Match found";
 }
?>

What errors are you getting?

Answer 2

Var_dump solved the issue. There was a additional whitespace in one of the variables causing the issue. Using trim helped.

Answer 3

if (strpos($word, $word_to_compare) !== false) 
    echo 'Match Found';
else
    echo 'Match Not Found';

This should work perfectly!!!

In your case:

$word = "achievement";
$word_to_compare = "achiev";

if(strpos($word, $word_to_compare) !== false)
{
    echo "Match found";
}

This returns "Match found" as Result... Please write the code perfectly, it should work...

And, thanks for giving negative point :)