More flexibility in searching an array

I am trying to search an array to see if it contains a certain word but the in_array(); function (form what I can see) needs to be the exact value of the array values. Here is an example:

$fruit = array('Green Apple', 'Yellow Banana', 'Red Cherry');

Code (markup):

How would I search $fruit to see if it contains the word "Green" or "Cherry?" Maybe I'm thinking so hard I can't see the simple solution. Thanks for any help.

 

You could use foreach and loop through the array preforming a strpos on each element.

Try something like this untested copied and pasted junk...

$fruit = array('Green Apple', 'Yellow Banana', 'Red Cherry');

foreach ($fruit as $mystring){
   $findme   = 'Green';
   $pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);

   // Note our use of ===.  Simply == would not work as expected
   // because the position of 'a' was the 0th (first) character.
   if ($pos === false) {
       echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
     } else {
       echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
       echo " and exists at position $pos";
   }
}

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