Re: Re: Negative string offset support
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:21:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Negative string offset support | ||
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At 01:05 AM 10/30/2004 +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Greg Beaver wrote: Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:Yeah, I also thought the word "need" is a bit strong :) It's more like "syntactic sugar which is nice-to-have" AndiI 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 astring.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.