Re: [PHP4BETA] replacing a substring

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > Yeah, neither do I. With the diffs I sent, you can achieve this by > using the empty string for $repl. I'm just going by the fact that when > I personally tried it and started writing the docs, it felt a little > cumbersome. But one data point does not make much of a case study into > what users want. :) > > > Right now it defaults to the value that would remove anythin from the > > offset to the end of the string. Once again, different people have > > different opinions on what should be the default. I don't know exactly > > how to gauge it. > > Again, me neither. Maybe there should be a definitive list somewhere: > "How to Make Everyone Happy". The people talking about db abstraction > could probably use something like that, too... Anyway, I change the order of the arguments like you suggested but I haven't changed what length defaults to - right now it's still until the end of the string. If you or someone else can give me a good argument why it should default to 0 or strlen($repl) I'll change it. -Andrei * It's an emergent property of human minds to create. *