Re: Negative string offset support
| From: | Sterling Hughes | Date: | Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:34:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Negative string offset support | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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why not add it with the {} operators then?
-sterling
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:07:05 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org> wrote:
> I am wondering what are people's opinions on adding support for negative
> string offsets that could be used to access data from the end of a string.
>
> Ex. $a = "123"; echo $a[-1]; // would print 3
>
> I don't think we should do this for arrays, since -1 and similar are
> valid array keys, which means adding this support for arrays would break BC.
>
> Ilia
>
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