Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP

Hi all, I just come back on the first reflexion about adding a str_slice() function. As it says before, using one method or the orther can really sucks in some cases, depending what you are coding about. So actually you mention there is two possibility : - Keep all in the actual state. substr is allready quite cool but can suck in some case. - Add a new function and a create a possible confusion about the two method name (like javascript), etc... bad idea. In fact I see a third possibility, change the substr() function to handle the both case. Here a simple proto : string substr( string $string, int $start [, int $second [, int $flag = SUBSTR_LENGTH ]]) with flags : - SUBSTR_LENGTH (the default flags value corresponding to the actual behavior) - SUBSTR_OFFSET (the new possibility to use an offset in third argument) This keep the compatility with the actual substr() function, and enchance it, so why not ? On 2011-03-31 19:58:42 +0200, Martin Scotta said:

--20cf307d046c3ddbde049fcb0b8f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I think it's time to stop thinking in terms of "functions" and move forward to "abstractions" $s1 = 'string'; $s1->contains($s2); $s1->indexOf($s2) === strpos($s1, $s2); Why can't the strings be exposed as pseudo-objects ? users can choose to use them as a regular strings or by calling methods on it. Martin Scotta On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: On 03/31/2011 08:45 AM, Philip Olson wrote:

- Intuitive name

Argh! Everyone should be forced to learn a bit of C. Like many PHP functions, the name and argument order is right out of libc. If you type "man strstr" at your (non-Windows) prompt you get a nice little description of what it does. -Rasmus --20cf307d046c3ddbde049fcb0b8f--

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