You mean $string{2} ? That's the more correct way to do $string[2] to make it clear that it is a character offset. This has been supported for years and will not go away.
-Rasmus On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Brad Bulger wrote: > > trying to fix bugs in some PEAR code, i noticed the person used a way > of getting at the individual characters in a string: > > $string{2} === substr($string,2,1) > > is that old syntax or something? is there any reason to expect it to work > in future versions? > > thanks > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php