Oxygen Theme - page.php

Hi,  I was trying to get the title to display on my pages. In page.php a check is done 

$is_vc_page = preg_match("/(\[.*?\])/", $content);

presumably checking for shortcode braces '[ ]' in order to establish if the content contains visual composer shortcodes.

The $is_vc_page variable is then used to decide on how the page should be output

<?php if($is_vc_page === false): ?>
   <div class="col-md-12">
      <div class="white-block block-pad">
         <h1 class="single-page-title"><?php echo the_title(); ?></h1>
         
         <div class="post-content">
            <?php the_content(); ?>
         </div>
         
      </div>
   </div>
<?php else: ?>
   <?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

if the content does not contain [ ] then the title is echoed. If it doesn't then the title isn't echoed - my content on this page is not built using visual composer - hence I was getting no title. However even with building the page using VC I was still getting no title. 

The php function preg_match returns 1 if there are matches, 0 if there are no matches and only returns false if there is an error.  As the page uses === to evaluate $is_vc_page being boolean false (not just 0) the code will only show a title if preg_match returns an error.

Is this desired behavior? I've already corrected page.php in my child theme - as I need the title regardless of their being shortcodes in the content.

Just thought I'd point it out :)

Thanks