Bug #15329 Updated: Subscripting into strings would be useful

ID: 15329 Updated by: hek@loudoun-net.com Reported By: hek@loudoun-net.com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: N/A PHP Version: 4.1.1 New Comment: Thank you. I know about substr() -- which is rather cumbersome compared with the notation I suggested -- but I don't know what you mean by {}. I cannot find this notation explainined in the PHP Manual (at least not in the pages about array functions, about the array type, nor in the pages about operators). Where is {} usage described? --HaigEK Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-01 14:50:01] derick@php.net Already supported by {} and substr. Derick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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