Problems comparing strings

[groovygarden]

Hi, Hope someone can help or point me in the direction of help....!

I'm trying to compare two strings. When I echo the strings they are exactly the same (or at least they appear exactly the same, yet when I compare them using

$list[$i]==$selected

or

strcmp($selected, $list[$i])

...I don't get a match. $list is an array of names created from a mysql select statement (spaces are encoded with  ). $selected is a value the user has selected from a listbox. Does this have something to do with it?

Cases match fine and there are no leading/trailing spaces and I've tried encoding the spaces in $selected as well. Nothing seems to work!

Any help on this one much appreciated as I'm pretty much stuck if I can't compare these two strings!

Thanks a lot

 

[DaRNCaT]

try using a perl regular expression like preg_match_all()
and use it to loop through your array

Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..

 

[skiflyer]

Probably not the select box... here's what I would do.

<?php

$temp = strlen($selected);
for ($i=0;$i<$temp;$i++) {
  echo $selected[$i].&quot;::&quot;.ord($selected[$i]);
  echo &quot;<br>&quot;;
}

?>

And run something like that on each string (DO NOT put them in the same loop. My guess is one of your strings has a newline at the end or something of that annoying sort.

-Rob