Doc #52509 [NEW]: Confusing description

From: Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Confusing description Description: ------------ The description for the strcspn function is confusing. "Returns the length of the initial segment of str1 which does not contain any of the characters in str2." This seems to indicate that the function looks for a string of unexpected characters and returns the length of that string. When what really happens, is that the function will either return zero, or, if the string starts with unexpected characters, return the length of that. Behavior I would expect from the description, strcspn('abcd', 'abc') == 1 strcspn('dabc', 'abc') == 1 What really happens strcspn('abcd', 'abc') == 0 strcspn('dabc', 'abc') == 1 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52509&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52509&r=mysqlcfg