I'll put it on my TODO and hopefully will find some time to look into it.
Andi
At 04:13 PM 10/29/2004 -0400, Paul G wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilia Alshanetsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Negative string offset support
> I am wondering what are people's opinions on adding support for negative > string offsets that could be used to access data from the end of a string. > > Ex. $a = "123"; echo $a[-1]; // would print 3 > > I don't think we should do this for arrays, since -1 and similar are > valid array keys, which means adding this support for arrays would break BC.
this, coupled with splicing, is very useful in python. i believe it would be very useful in php as well. agree with sterling's suggestion - it would enable all of the functionality, rather than some.
paul
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