Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:44:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP | ||
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On 31.03.11 17:05, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> On 03/31/2011 07:41 AM, Philip Olson wrote:
>> On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Martin Jansen wrote:
>>> 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()?
I think my main objective was to have a utility function that has the
advantages of strpos (i.e. faster and less memory usage than strstr)
while having a strict boolean return value so that I don't need to
remember to use === all the time.
- Martin