Hey Carlos,
On 27.2.2026 14:31:16, Barel wrote:
Hi everyone,
This is to announce the opening of the vote for the Prefix and Suffix
Functions RFC
RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/prefix_suffix_functions
Discussion thread: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/129842
The vote will be open for 2 weeks (and a few hours), closing on March
13th at midnight UTC.
Cheers
Carlos
I like this RFC very much. I think every addition to the standard
library needs to be well considered, but this one definitely crosses the
bar.
Simple prefix and suffix operations are quite common - especially in
scripting and manipulation of well-known strings.
While you certainly can write these with substr, it often either
duplicates the string for the length or just hardcodes the length, both
of which are equally ugly.
Sure, users can write helper functions for these, but I find below a
certain size, users typically don't.
Thus I think this proposed change will lead to simpler and less
error-prone code.
Bob
