使用strpos匹配â€和

Question

I have this … symbol showing up on my page instead of ... and I tried to use both to see if it's in the string using:

echo $matches[$indexN];
if (strpos($matches[$indexN], "…") === false && strpos($matches[$indexN], "...") === false) {
echo "false";
}

The output of $matches[$indexN]:

…

The output of the if statement:

false

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

… is the ANSI interpretation of an ellipsis (…) encoded in UTF-8. An ellipsis is one character, whereas it looks like you are passing three (three periods) to strpos. Incidentally, when working with a multibyte encoding such as UTF-8, you'll need to use mb_strpos instead.