Re: Re: Negative string offset support
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:05:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Negative string offset support | ||
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Greg Beaver wrote:
> Ilia Alshanetsky 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.
>
> I need this, +1
How can you *need* this, you can use substr() just fine.
Derick
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