if ($myrow['Noticia'] !== '<' && $myrow['Noticia'] !== 'Nao') {
echo "Noticia mal colocada!";
}
I have this code and would like to just check the first character of the Noticias column that would be this < and if it did not have this character at the beginning, and was different from No , message.
You can read the first character by passing its index as an array:
$myrow['Noticia'][0]
Note: $myrow['Noticia'][0] will generate a warning ( notice ) if the string value is null.
Another alternative is the substr function:
if (substr($myrow['Noticia'], 0, 1) !== '<' && $myrow['Noticia'] !== 'Nao') {
echo "Noticia mal colocada!";
}
Where substr ( string $string , int $start [, int $length ] ) :
$string : The variable to parse. $start : Indicates starting position in $string . $length : The amount of characters that should be returned from $start .