Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.4

On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 06:39, Dusk <dusk@woofle.net> wrote: > On Jun 25, 2024, at 22:18, Mike Schinkel mike@newclarity.net wrote: > > > This leads me to think strtok() should not be deprecated > > given how inefficient string handling in PHP can otherwise be, at least not without a much more > > efficient object for string parsing. > > > What would be really useful as a replacement for strtok() - among other things - would be a > function analogous to MySQL's SUBSTRING_INDEX(): > > > https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/string-functions.html#function_substring-index > > Where SUBSTRING_INDEX($a, $b, $c) is functionally equivalent to explode($a, $b)[$c], but with > the added ability to use negative indices to count from the end of the input. That is a rather interesting function that I did not know existed in MySQL. I agree this would be useful, and probably should be its own RFC/thread. Best regards, Gina P. Banyard