I just want to stress that I've been reading, trying and failing a lot before I asked this question. I can see similar questions but not exact duplicates.
I need to find a value that:
This is what I'm currently doing:
if ( $name == '/cake/' || $name == '/CAKE/' || $name == '/Cake/' || $name == '/CaKe/' || $name == 'CAKE' || $name == 'cake' {
This is what I'm trying to do:
if(preg_match == (cake:) *(\([a-zA-Z]+\).+){
Can't quite get it to work.
You're basically searching for a case-insensitive Cake. Then just use the i flag.
preg_match("~ Cake ~xi", $name)
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If you also want to match for optional / slashes around, then add an altenative:
preg_match("~ /Cake/ | \b Cake \b ~xi", $name)
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Note the \b word boundary markers for the unenclosed cake, so you're not matching Cakeriky for example.
If you want Cake to be at the start of the string, then it'll need an ^ marker.
preg_match("~ ^ (/Cake/ | \b Cake \b) ~xi", $name)
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start anchor
If you additionally wanted to enforce some text thereafter being present (and not optional/ignored), then add another placeholder:
preg_match("~ ^ (/Cake/ | \b Cake \b) .*\w.* ~xi", $name)
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at least one word char