Re: Negative string offsets

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Robert Eisele wrote: > Negative string offsets is a wish and also an implementation of my running > PHP version for long. It operates in the same fashion like substr() with > negative offsets, but avoids the function call and is much smarter if one > single character has to be extracted: > > $str = "Hallo"; > > $str[0] == "H" > $str[-1] == "o"; > > If -6 is used as offset, the old warning is displayed because it's the first > undefined negative offset. > > The same thing for setting: > > $str[-1] = '0'; > $str[-4] = "4"; > > will result in "H4ll0" > > Would be glad to see this in 5.4 Sounds like a good addition to me! For ArrayAccess, would this calculate the "correct" index so that current implementations of ArrayAccess don't have to be changed? cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug