Searching problems

Its doin my ead in :(

[kermey]

Im trying to search a string using eregi, but its not finding what i want even though i know that its there.

If i had a string "aaabbbbaaa" and searched for bbbb, would it find it? or is there another better way to do this?

[justageek]

You could use stristr.

JAG

[sabai]

or

substr_count

[Romeo]

... or
if (preg_match("/bbbb/",$longstringvariable)) {
echo "found!\n";
}

Regards,
R.

[g1smd]

What are the major differences between each of those, and their limitations?