Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Martin Jansen <martin@divbyzero.net> wrote: > On 31.03.11 16:41, Philip Olson wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Martin Jansen wrote: > >> 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 ;) > > >From time to time I have wondered if it made sense to add a new operator > "in" that works on variables of different type and could replace > in_string/str_contains: > > if ("a" in "abc") { ... } > > if ("a" in array("a", "b", "c")) { ... } > > if ("a" in $obj) { /* true if $obj->__contains("a") returned true */ } > > I suspect there is a massive potential for WTF issues in there and that > most people would hate this feature. Which is why I am only thinking > out loud here -- I have zero intentions to suggest this as a future > enhancement for PHP. ;-) > > - Martin > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > would we have mb_in also? :) Tyrael