Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: (PHP4BETA) New function chrcount

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:49:31AM -0400, Peter Kovacs wrote: > Well, the new function (now named something str_count I believe) does more > than just count characters, but also substrings. So it does have > different functionality than count_chars. Plus, this function only keeps > track of a single character, not every byte value. Not that much of a > difference, but perhaps a little faster. if the function does something different - ok. > > Peter > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 thies@digicol.de wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:23:30PM -0400, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > > That sounds a lot like a regular expression matching engine to me, > > > especially when you get into substrings that have suffixes that are also > > > non-trivial prefixes. > > > > > > I like the str_chr_freq suggestion, any objections to that? > > > > hmm > > > > $d = count_chars("some stupid string"); > > > > echo $d["s"]; // prints the freqency of "s" in "some stupid > > string" > > > > i don't see why we need it! > > > > tc > > > > > > > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Ted Parnefors wrote: > > > > > > > How about if you instead extend its functionallity to not only count the > > > > occurencies of characters, but instead include the possibility to count > > > > the number of occurencies of substrings, and hence call the function > > > > count_occurencies ? > > > > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Ted Parnefors <ted@mtv.se>, KeyID 0x6627DEE4 > > > > PGP Fingerprint 1C39FA94703EB54A011CF18932018E256627DEE4 > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > Peter D. Kovacs KnowPost.com LLC > > > Lead Engineer peter@knowpost.com > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List > > > <http://www.php.net/version4/> > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > > > > -- > > > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" > > Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 > > Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Peter D. Kovacs KnowPost.com LLC > Lead Engineer peter@knowpost.com > -------------------------------------------------- -- Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany