Re: Manual contradiction concerning string access?

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:21 +0100, Németh Zoltán wrote: > AFAIK the english manual is more up to date, so I would follow that > > greets > Zoltán Németh > > 2007. 02. 20, kedd keltezéssel 17.15-kor Christian Heinrich ezt írta: > > Dear list, > > > > today, I read in a german PHP forum about a problem with accessing an > > offset of a string. > > > > For example, if you have a variable like > > > > $string = "this is my string"; > > > > and you want to access the third character at once, I would suggest to use > > > > $string{2} Use [], internals recently (7 months or so ago) reversed their opinion of on deprecating [] for strings in favour of {}. The {} almost got deprecated itself, but was saved in lieu of user feedback on internals. So it would seem [] is the superior choice and {} may someday get cut. This is in spite of the PHP group original recommending {}. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'