Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:05:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP | ||
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On 03/31/2011 07:41 AM, Philip Olson wrote:
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> On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Martin Jansen wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> http://marc.info/?t=121647230100001&r=1&w=2
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>> 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
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> 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 ;)
How would str_contains() be different from strstr()?
-Rasmus