Re: Re: Negative string offset support
| From: | Greg Beaver | Date: | Sat, 30 Oct 2004 02:44:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Negative string offset support | ||
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Derick Rethans wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Greg Beaver wrote:I don't *need* PHP either. any other questions? GregIlia Alshanetsky wrote:How can you *need* this, you can use substr() just fine.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