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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New String Function: str_replace_limit
From: florian@anderiasch.de (Florian Anderiasch)

On 07/16/2012 10:29 AM, Paul Dragoonis wrote:
> Thanks for the comments guys, I like your idea about skipping the
> by-ref count parameter.
> 
> If the 'default' keyword were to be added in, then you could skip the
> 4th parameter and add your 5th 'limit' option.
> 
> $str = str_replace($search, $replace, $subject, default, 5);
> 
> Does anyone have any objections on this implementation approach?
> (obviously we'd have to wait for the default param skipping to be
> implemented, I'm not sure on the implementation status of that
> feature)

I'm not seeing what's the problem with it being a by-ref variable, as
you've mentioned it twice now. Are you bothered by an additional
variable being set in memory when skipping (i.e. not using it)? Or am I
reading more into it than you tried to say? :)

Greetings,
Florian