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@Alexander.Plutov second of all you're giving me a -1 and not the question ? cmon it takes 2 seconds to google the answer google.com/…
– Breezer
Commented Dec 6, 2010 at 14:03
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+1 Its a horrible way to search for a simple string, but many visitors to SO are looking for any way to search for any of their own substrings, and it is helpful that the suggestion has been brought up. Even the OP might have oversimplified - let him know of his alternatives.
– SamGoody
Commented Nov 9, 2011 at 9:53
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Technically, the question asks how to find words not a substring. This actually helped me as I can use this with regex word boundries. Alternatives are always useful.
– user764357
Commented Aug 20, 2013 at 5:57
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+1 for the answer and -1 to the @plutov.by comment because , strpos is just a single check meanwhile regexp you can check many words in the same time ex: preg_match(/are|you|not/)
– albanx
Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 17:05
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Regular Expressions should be the last resort method. Their use in trivial tasks should be discouraged. I insist on this from the height of many years of digging bad code.
– yentsun
Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 14:38

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