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[PHP4ME]

Hi all again,

Please see this bit of code:

$sentence = 'Lucas and Amanjot were dancing in the streets.';

$pos = strpos($sentence, "dancing");


echo($sentence) . "<br />";

echo("The word dancing is in the following position: $pos");

Instead of assigning the strpos() function to a variable, is there a way to put it into the echo statement directly? I tried a few times and wasn't getting anywhere. It didn't seem that it was recognizing that it was a function instead of text. However, I thought the double " instead of ' would parse it correctly. And further to this point, functions within other functions (within other, other, other functions) work the same way?

Thoughts?

Thanks again for all the clarification and help!

[John]

$sentence = 'Lucas and Amanjot were dancing in the streets.'; 


echo $sentence . "<br />"; 

echo "The word dancing is in the following position: " . strpos($sentence, "dancing");  

[PHP4ME]

Hi John,

Thanks for the response. It's working great. I think I need to stop getting into the habit of doing echo() instead of echo " "... the extra brackets (and their placement) is messing me up I think in the syntax.

I have a friend who always does echo("This is text") instead of echo "This is text" and its getting me confused.

Cheers!

[Orjan]

there is nothing wrong doing:

echo ("The word dancing is in the following position: " . strpos($sentence, "dancing"));

It's as I said in the other thread. It's just a matter of taste.

[PHP4ME]

Thanks Orjan. I realize preference can play a role - but does efficiency play a part in this for optimizing code/data?