2011/6/20 Derick Rethans <der...@php.net>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Robert Eisele wrote:
>
> > Here is the next one.
> >
> > I think it's quite intuitive to use strtr() to remove single characters
> of a
> > string, too, instead of using many str_replace($str, $chr, ""). I'd glad
> to
> > see this change also in 5.4.
>
> Do you mean that (the currently documented):
>
> "If from and to have different lengths, the extra characters in the
> longer of the two are ignored. The length of str will be the same as the
> return value's."
>
> would then change into:
>
> "If from and to have different lengths, the extra characters in the
> longer of the two are assumed to be the empty string, thus
> removing those characters. The length of str will be the same as
> the return value's unless the from and to have a different length."
>
> This could be one possible implementation. My implementation doesn't
change the old behaviour of strtr(). I simply used the length of the
"smaller"
value to indicate what mode should get used; if the length is zero, all
characters get removed like this:
$demise = strtr("passion", "os", "");
which results in "pain"
> cheers,
> Derick
>
Robert
