Re: Need two simple string funcs for parsing

Hello jtl, hello documentation-team, Friday, July 9, 2004, 2:36:20 PM, you wrote: > Hi Marcus, >> See here: >> http://php.net/strspn >> http://php.net/strcspn > Wow. They're already there. >> And the names are colliding with >> http://php.net/strpbrk > Looks like I'm not the only person who couldn't find them. >> please read the docs. > Dude, I have spent hours reading the docs and have many times scanned > the string functions looking for a way to do this. There are so many > functions, it's hard to find what you want. The way the online php manual > pages are set up, I have to first guess from the function name whether the > function might possibly do the job, so that I can then click on the name > to see what the function does. > Maybe the right answer is to use less cryptic function names. It would > also have helped to have strpos and related functions references these two > functions as related functions. That's probably a good idea to somehow link them to gether more closely. -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net