Re: Negative string offset support
| From: | Ilia Alshanetsky | Date: | Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:37:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Negative string offset support | ||
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Sure, I have no operator preference.
Ilia
Sterling Hughes wrote:
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 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php