Hey Guys,
I have a simple one for you, if you could help me out with this, I would be VERY grateful because its driving me nuts!

So I am trying to search a file for a word. Thats it, not trying to write to the file, just read and search. I have simplified the code as much as possible and it still cant find it. Here is the code:

<?
$file = file_get_contents("users/crimsonlung.txt");
if(!strpos($file, "word")) {
echo "string not found!";
}
?>

So this should be looking into a file called "crimsonlung.txt" in the users folder for the text "word."

in the file, I have nothing but the text: "word" in it. So what is the problem?

I've echoed the variables just to make sure it was searching in the right spot and finding the data, and it was. So why is "string not found" being echod' each time? What could possibly be wrong?

Is there any other code I could use?

Thanks for any help!

(From the php manual)

Try writing it out as below. Note the use of exactly equal to "==="
You can alternately use "!=="

PHP Code:

$mystring = 'abc';
$findme   = 'a';
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);

// Note our use of ===.  Simply == would not work as expected
// because the position of 'a' was the 0th (first) character.
if ($pos === false) {
    echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
} else {
    echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
    echo " and exists at position $pos";
} 


http://php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php

You can also use stripos to make the search case insensitive.

Like racer x post === and !== is better solutions then !strpos.