which is the fast process strpos()/stripos() or preg_match() in php

Question

I just want to known which one will be fast of strpos()/stripos() or preg_match() functions in php.

Answer 1

I found this blog that has run some testes regarding your question, the result was:

• strpos() is 3-16 times faster than preg_match()
• stripos() is 2-30 times slower than strpos()
• stripos() is 20-100 percent faster than preg_match() with the caseless modifier "//i"
• using a regular expression in preg_match() is not faster than using a long string
• using the utf8 modifier "//u" in preg_match() makes it 2 times slower

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