+1, seems useful. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Robert Eisele <rob...@xarg.org> wrote: > Negative string offsets is a wish and also an implementation of my running > PHP version for long. It operates in the same fashion like substr() with > negative offsets, but avoids the function call and is much smarter if one > single character has to be extracted: > > $str = "Hallo"; > > $str[0] == "H" > $str[-1] == "o"; > > If -6 is used as offset, the old warning is displayed because it's the first > undefined negative offset. > > The same thing for setting: > > $str[-1] = '0'; > $str[-4] = "4"; > > will result in "H4ll0" > > Would be glad to see this in 5.4 > > Robert >
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