Req #67035 [Opn->Dup]: wish: str_ends() and str_begins()

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67035&edit=1 ID: 67035 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: php at richardneill dot org Summary: wish: str_ends() and str_begins() -Status: Open +Status: Duplicate Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Strings related PHP Version: Irrelevant -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Duplicate of feature request #50434. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-04-14 13:26:40] php at richardneill dot org Hello, and thanks for your comment. That wasn't quite what I meant. I intended the functions to return a boolean, (as per my examples in the original request). Not "str_end()" which would return the final character, but "str_ends()", i.e. "does this string end with that string". For example: if (str_ends($filename, ".jpg")){ ... or if (str_begins($url, "https://")){ ... I do realise these are relatively trivial, but given how common this kind of construction is, I think they'd be useful to lots of people as a convenience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-04-14 12:59:16] malalaimo923 at gmail dot com Please see this document: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php It is possible to access and modify a character of a string using an index. The String End is: $string[strlen($string)-1]; The String Start is: $string[0]; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-04-06 15:32:04] php at richardneill dot org Description: ------------ It would be really useful to have standard functions: str_ends() and str_begins() These are trivial to implement, but the use for them is so extremely common that they'd be a helpful addition to the standard library. It's also not quite obvious to beginners how to do it - especially for str_ends(). For comparison, Javascript has string.startsWith() and string.endsWith() Examples below. Thank you for your consideration and your time. Test script: --------------- function str_ends($string,$end){ return (substr($string,-strlen($end),strlen($end)) === $end); } function str_begins($string,$start){ return (substr($string,0,strlen($start)) === $start); } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67035&edit=1