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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:09:13 +0100
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To: Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP
From: rquadling@gmail.com (Richard Quadling)

On 31 March 2011 17:50, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
>
>> Am 31.03.2011 17:52, schrieb Rasmus Lerdorf:
>>> Argh! Everyone should be forced to learn a bit of C. Like many PHP
>>> functions, the name and argument order is right out of libc. If you typ=
e
>>> "man strstr" at your (non-Windows) prompt you get a nice little
>>> description of what it does.
>>
>> And if you install pman you just do "pman strstr" and get PHP-specific
>> documentation.
>
> Although I disagree that adding a C prerequisite to PHP ends this discuss=
ion, using pman is a related topic which can be installed like so:
>
> =C2=A0pear install doc.php.net/pman
>
> Then, simply 'pman in_array' or similar will open local php man pages in =
shell. However, the pman files have not been updated for awhile so we'll lo=
ok into this. Oh, guess we should create a 'pman pman' too.
>
> Regards,
> Philip

Am I right in thinking pman and man is not for windows ... hmmm.
Sounds like half a job to me!

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