Bug #12274 Updated: parser/string access problems

ID: 12274 Updated by: cynic Reported By: tegel@dubaron.com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Strings related Operating System: NT4 PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 New Comment: BTW, I can't reproduce it with a recent CVS checkout: [cynic@linux cynic]$ cat test.php <? $s = "hello" ; $s[0] = "H" ; var_dump($s) ; ?> [cynic@linux cynic]$ php -q test.php string(5) "Hello" [cynic@linux cynic]$ php -v 4.0.7-dev Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-20 14:22:20] zak@php.net Oops - that should be bogus, not closed. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-20 14:20:38] zak@php.net The use of brackets as to access a single character from a string is deprecated. Use curly braces instead and you will experience the expected behavior. i.e. <?php $foo = 'bar'; $foo{2} = 't'; echo $foo; ?> There is additional information at http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-20 05:55:38] tegel@dubaron.com Suppose a string $t: one can access(read) all single characters of $t by reading elements $t[0] .. $t[n] Setting $t[0] however fails, setting $t[1] .. $t[n] succeeds. Looks like when setting element [0] that $t gets converted to array type, and after setting $t[0] the values $t[1]..$t[n] are simply lost. why not this behaviour with other indexes as well, only with item[0] ? - that's not consistent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12274&edit=1