Re: strchr()

Andi Gutmans wrote: > > Hey, > > Write now the PHP function strchr() is aliased to strstr() for some odd > reason. It could be implemented much faster as strchr() just looks for a > character within a string and not a string within a string. > Do you guys think people are using strchr() where strstr() should be used, > and will they get bitten if its behavior is changed to do "exactly but not > more" of what it should do? > > Andi > --- > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ Since we have already documented them as being aliases for quite a while now, it will definitely break a lot of scripts, and considering most of the people using PHP are on hosting on pretty fast machines, the speed gain is not, I don't think, worth breaking perfectly good scripts. Sterling