Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP
| From: | Philip Olson | Date: | Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:41:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP | ||
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On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Martin Jansen wrote:
> On 30.03.11 21:36, Dan Birken wrote:
>> As for adding other string functions, I agree, I think there are a lot of
>> them that would be great to add. starts_with & ends_with for sure.
>
> Both str_startswith and str_endswith have been suggested in the past:
>
> http://marc.info/?t=121647230100001&r=1&w=2
>
> I recently got around to merge them into a largely unfinished extension
> so they are archived somewhere safe:
> https://github.com/mj/php-ext-str
I see str_contains() on the TODO there. I've always wanted in_string() so am glad to see a
similar item. Using strpos() for this task feels dirty, much like using arrpos() for arrays would ;)
Regards,
Philip