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how to search for uppercase and lowercase variables?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 11:09 pm
by deras
i have a search script which eliminates the search word from the search results.

foreach ($arrinterests as $interest) {
$interest = trim($interest);

however if the case is different, it does not work. so if i search for 'sports', 'sports' does not get returned, but if i search for 'Sports', 'sports' does get returned.

how do i make it so 'sports' does not get returned when someone searches for 'Sports' how do i trip and case version of the word sports, i.e. SPORTS, Sports, SpOrTs, etc?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 11:14 pm
by protokol
I'm not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but these functions might be useful:

strcasecmp()
strtolower()
strtoupper()