AFAIK the english manual is more up to date, so I would follow that greets Zoltán Németh
2007. 02. 20, kedd keltezéssel 17.15-kor Christian Heinrich ezt írta: > Dear list, > > today, I read in a german PHP forum about a problem with accessing an > offset of a string. > > For example, if you have a variable like > > $string = "this is my string"; > > and you want to access the third character at once, I would suggest to use > > $string{2} > > so this will return the "i". > > The (german!) manual says about that: > (http://de.php.net/manual/de/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.substr) > > > *Anmerkung: * Für Abwärtskompatibilität können Sie für den selben > > Zweck immer noch die Array-Klammern verwenden. Diese Syntax wird > > jedoch seit PHP 4 missbilligt. > > (Translation:) > > > *Note: *For downwards compatibility you may use the array brackets as > > well. But as of PHP 4, this syntax is deprecated. > > The english manual says: (Link: > http://de.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.substr > > ) > > > *Note: * They may also be accessed using braces like $str{42} for the > > same purpose. However, using square array-brackets is preferred > > because the {braces} style is deprecated as of PHP 6. > > > I'm a little bit confused by now. Which style should I pick? I use PHP 4 > and 5. Is there any other difference? > > It would be great if someone could solve that contradiction within the > manual, too. > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Sincere regards > Christian Heinrich > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php