Yes thank you, I thought I would have heard about it before now if all
brackets were deprecated! ;) I bit, though, when I read that page you
linked to.
Thanks for the clarification though.
Erik
On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 03:49 PM, Steve Edberg wrote:
> Sorry if I was less than totally clear; I was referring to this part of
> the page:
>
> --------------------------------
> Characters within strings may be accessed by specifying the zero-based
> offset of the desired character after the string in curly braces.
>
> Note: For backwards compatibility, you can still use the array-braces.
> However, this syntax is deprecated as of PHP 4.
>
> Example 6-3. Some string examples
>
> <SNIP>
>
> /* Get the first character of a string */
> $str = 'This is a test.'
> $first = $str{0};
> --------------------------------
>
> ...and that was the first I'd noticed that myself; I assume that the {}
> syntax is only being used to refer to arrays as strings, to avoid
> confusion with an array of strings -
>
> $str = array('string 1', 'thing 2');
> echo $str[0]; # produces 'string 1'
>
> - and a scalar string variable being treated as an array of characters.
> So I'm guessing (too lazy to test right at the moment) that you would
> get
>
> $str = array(array('bork','fubar'), 'snafu');
> echo $str[0][1]; # produces 'fubar'
> echo $str[1][1]; # produces null
> echo $str[1]{1}; # produces 'n'
>
> Again, that's just what I'm assuming from the docs. A quick test would
> clear it up, but it doesn't affect me right now, and I'm feeling lazy ;)
>
> Hope that clears up my statement...
>
> -steve
>
>
> At 12:11 PM -0500 1/17/02, Erik Price wrote:
>> I didn't know that either. Does this apply only when accessing
>> strings by character? Or are all conventional uses of brackets
>> deprecated for the purposes of arrays?
>>
>> It doesn't say on that page
>> (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php , a bit more
>> than halfway down).
>>
>>
>> Erik
>>
>>>
>>>> Actually, using the [] syntax is deprecated - using {} is the new way
>>>> - but I'm a creature of habit...
>>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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