note 63741 added to language.operators.string

WRT Stephen's note: My example of concatenation and array methods of string building does not include the interstitial logic, which is expected to include conditionals. Concatenation method: $str="This is my list"; if($list=="o") $str.="<ol>"; else $str.="<ul>"; foreach($item as $i) $str.="<li>$i</li>"; if($list=="o") $str.="</ol>"; else $str.="</ul>"; Array method: $str=array("This is my list"); if($list=="o") $str[]="<ol>"; else $str[]="<ul>"; foreach($item as $i) $str[]="<li>$i</li>"; if($list=="o") $str[]="</ol>"; else $str[]="</ul>"; $str=implode("",$str); You can't do either of these with a single double-quoted string. However, if what you are doing CAN be done in a single double-quoted string, Stephen is completely correct in observing that you should do that instead of concatenating. ---- Server IP: 66.163.161.117 Probable Submitter: 71.37.45.156 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/63741 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63741/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63741/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63741/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63741/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63741/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63741/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63741 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/63741 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php