Re: Strange string stuff -- maybe everything is ending...

Think that PHP inherited this from the C-language. The C-language inherited this from good old assembler :-) Index of the array is the offset from the starting-address of the string. Suppose the "$a" starts at address 1000 than $a[0] is at 1000 + 0, $a[1] is at 1000 + 1 $a[2] is at 1000 + 2 etc.... The fact that $a[4] does not exist makes this indeed confusing, perhaps PHP could have solved this internally ? Gr. Louis On 12/21/12 23:27, Jim Giner wrote:

On 12/21/2012 5:16 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote:

On Dec 21, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com> wrote:

Never realized that you could address a string as an array of chars, which you are doing. Could that be the issue? Or did I learn something new? Or should you have used substr to remove that last char?

Jim: I guess you learned something new -- that's good. A string is just a "string" of chars. As such, if you define: $a = "tedd"; then: $a[0] is 't'; $a[1] is 'e' $a[2] is 'd' $a[3] is 'd' The only confusing thing here is the length of the string -- in this case the length of this string is four, but $a[4] has not been defined. Cheers, tedd _____________________ tedd@sperling.com http://sperling.com

From what I do know, there shouldn't be an a[4]. In any case, let's assume that there is a bug in the string logic that you're using. Why not just use substr? $topic = substr($topic,0,-1);