php string matching functions

[nouse66]

i vaugely remember seeing a php function a long time ago that was somewhere inbetween ereg_match()/preg_match() and strpos() and i cant find it anymore. it was used for matching strings but had sql like wildcard capabilities (% matches 0 or more characters).

can anone confirm that there is or is not such a function?

i have a huge script that works currently with strpos() and would be a pain to convert to full regex matching so i'm that i'm remembering correctly.

maybe i'm losing it and this was a completely different language...

thanks,
aaron

[fatTrav]

It would be here if it existed, most likely: http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php

ok, i take that back. php's functions aren't laid out in a manner I can really figure out. I had assumed some/all regex matching functions would be within the string functions list...

[nouse66]

yeah, i went through php.net for quite a while today and couldnt find it. the regex functions have their own section that is separate from the string functions...