Re: foreach() for strings

As long as it works on a premise that a "string" is a byte array and each element represents 1 byte, +1 from me. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Robert Eisele <robert@xarg.org> wrote: > foreach() has many functions, looping over arrays, objects and implementing > the iterator interface. I think it's also quite intuitive to use foreach() > for strings, too. > > If you want to implement a parser in PHP, you have to go the way with for + > strlen + substr() or $x[$i] to address one character of the string. We could > overdo the functionality of foreach() > by implementing LVAL's, too, in order to access single bits but this is > really uncommon, even if the way of thinking could be, that foreach() gives > a single attribute of each value, no matter > if it's a complex object with the iterator interface or a primitive. What do > you think about this one? My point of view is, that foreach() is very > useful, which was acknowledged by many ppl via the comments of my article. > > I think, adding features like this persuades the one or the other PHP user > to upgrade to 5.4. > > Robert >