Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP

Martin Scotta On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On 03/31/2011 07:41 AM, Philip Olson wrote: > > > > 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 ;) > > How would str_contains() be different from strstr()? > > They differ in the return type boolean str_contains(string, string); string strstr(string, string); -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >