note 74255 deleted from function.substr by nlopess

Note Submitter: legolas558 d0t users dot sf dot net ---- substr() does not behave like other languages' likewise functions, I will explain: <?php // extract the substring from offset 3, which is the end of the string $sub = substr('four', 3); // dumps (bool) false var_dump($sub); ?> The result will be (bool) false while an empty (string) "" was expected, so you will always have to check for that case or use (string)$sub (I would file a bug for this consistency issue but I am too lazy to do it)