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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check weather a string is like test* or test* ot *test* in if condition Post 302396266 by jlliagre on Thursday 18th of February 2010 05:05:29 AM
Old 02-18-2010
Code:
case $string in 
(test*)
 echo "starts with test";;
(*test)
  echo "ends with test";;
(*test*)
  echo "contains test";;
(*)
  echo "doesn't match";;
esac

 

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CONSTANT(3)								 1							       CONSTANT(3)

constant - Returns the value of a constant

SYNOPSIS
mixed constant (string $name) DESCRIPTION
Return the value of the constant indicated by $name. constant(3) is useful if you need to retrieve the value of a constant, but do not know its name. I.e. it is stored in a variable or returned by a function. This function works also with class constants. PARAMETERS
o $name - The constant name. RETURN VALUES
Returns the value of the constant, or NULL if the constant is not defined. ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS An E_WARNING level error is generated if the constant is not defined. EXAMPLES
Example #1 constant(3) example <?php define("MAXSIZE", 100); echo MAXSIZE; echo constant("MAXSIZE"); // same thing as the previous line interface bar { const test = 'foobar!'; } class foo { const test = 'foobar!'; } $const = 'test'; var_dump(constant('bar::'. $const)); // string(7) "foobar!" var_dump(constant('foo::'. $const)); // string(7) "foobar!" ?> SEE ALSO
define(3), defined(3), The section on Constants. PHP Documentation Group CONSTANT(3)
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