What is IN (..VALUES..) in PHP?

[ENIGMA]

Just curious, in other language I can easily write:

if $something IN ('AA','AB','CD') then ...

is there that easy "IN" operator in PHP? other than writing like this:

if ($something=='AA' || $something=='AB' || ...)

-OR-

strpos('AAABCD', $something)

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[zoloby]

Hi dude

Not a language construct or anything of that nature. The most similar in functionality would be in_array().

Code:

# if $something IN ('AA','AB','CD') then ...
# to...
$arr= array ( 'AA' , 'AB' , 'CD' ) ;
if ( in_array ( 'something' , $arr ) )
{

}

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[sinister]

Originally Posted by ENIGMA

if ($something=='AA' || $something=='AB' || ...)

-OR-

strpos('AAABCD', $something)

Those two notation are NOT equivalent, Code:

<?php

$something = 'AAA';

if ($something=='AA' || $something=='AB')
{
echo '<li>Found using method 1</li>';
}
else
{
echo '<li>Not found using method 1</li>';
}

if (strpos('AAABCD', $something) !== false)
{
echo '<li>Found using method 2</li>';
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