Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:62626 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 15963 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2012 09:35:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Sep 2012 09:35:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.20.128 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.20.128 c2bthomr10.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.20.128] ([213.123.20.128:49572] helo=mail.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 33/32-03671-5F6D1405 for ; Sat, 01 Sep 2012 05:35:51 -0400 Received: from host81-138-11-136.in-addr.btopenworld.com (EHLO _10.0.0.5_) ([81.138.11.136]) by c2bthomr10.btconnect.com with ESMTP id IYY28230; Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:35:47 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5041D6EF.7050308@lsces.co.uk> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:35:43 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120604 Firefox/13.0 SeaMonkey/2.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <5041CCE7.1000309@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=Fair-1, source=Queried, refid=tid=0001.0A0B0303.5041D6F1.006F, actions=tag X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/50, refid=2.7.2:2012.9.1.85728:17:7.944, ip=81.138.11.136, rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __HAS_FROM, __USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, __URI_NO_MAILTO, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, BODY_ENDS_IN_URL, BODY_SIZE_1300_1399, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, RDNS_SUSP, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2bthomr10.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B020D.5041D6F3.00AA:SCFSTAT14830815,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2011-07-25 19:15:43, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Support negative indexes for arrays and strings From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Sherif Ramadan wrote: > I can't understand what you mean by "Different means of identifying > position in the array"? If you mean a way to access an array's element > by its position in the array then yes, we already have that. It's > called array_slice() seehttp://php.net/array-slice which allows you > to access elements in the array by their offset and that includes > using a negative offset. The key and the offset are two completely > different things. Never had to use it ;) But then there is a heck of a lot of stuff I've never even looked at. But it does blow this thread - when referring to collection arrays - out of the water? The problem I see is people trying to apply 'string' rules in the wrong way ... and I find that string handling works fine for me as it currently works but we probably just need to STOP people trying to apply the same rules to something that is totally different? And I though that 'string' -ve indexes had been sorted? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk