Bug #15329 Updated: Subscripting into strings would be useful

ID: 15329 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: hek@loudoun-net.com Old Status: Open Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: N/A PHP Version: 4.1.1 New Comment: Already supported by {} and substr. Derick Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-01 13:48:17] hek@loudoun-net.com The now very old North Star BASIC had a wonderful feature that I'd love to see in PHP, which was the ability to access strings using subscripts, rather like subscripting into an array, except even better since it allowed ranges to be subscripted just as easily as single characters in the strings. Examples: $string = "My String"; echo $string[5]; // returns "r" echo $string[0,]; // returns "My String" echo $string[3,5]; // returns "Str" echo $string[,3]; // returns "My S" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=15329&edit=1