#50649 [Opn]: negative offsets

ID: 50649 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported By: robert_xp at gmx dot net Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request PHP Version: 5.3.1 New Comment: For reference, functionality similar to this has been discussed at least once before on the Internals mailing list: http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=119123827510426&w=2 I'm not going to Won't Fix this, because unlike bug #50647, this hasn't been denied via the RFC process. I'd suggest that writing an RFC to start a discussion on Internals is probably the right way to go about this (being a language change), rather than a feature request here. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-01-04 11:55:48] robert_xp at gmx dot net Description: ------------ I heared somewhere, that string offsets will be removed in future releases of PHP, as of 6.0. I like accessing single characters in a C/C++ like way. If you pass a negative offset to strings, it would be a good improvement to start at the end of the string, like the behavior of substr(). The same is also possible for arrays, but I only focused on string offsets here: http://www.xarg.org/2009/12/php-hacking/ Reproduce code: --------------- $str = "Hello"; echo $str[-2].$str[-1].$str[0]; Expected result: ---------------- loH Actual result: -------------- Warnings ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50649&edit=1