Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:73715 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49344 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2014 12:23:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Apr 2014 12:23:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 78.32.209.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.32.209.33 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Received: from [78.32.209.33] ([78.32.209.33:48130] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FB/01-39661-0D7CF435 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:23:46 -0400 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WalLw-0004gs-TV for internals@lists.php.net; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:23:41 +0100 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:23:40 +0100 To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20140417122340.GS5587@phcomp.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: internals@lists.php.net References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Negative string offsets From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 01:01:44PM +0100, Leigh wrote: > Hi Internals, > > What are peoples thoughts on allowing negative string offsets, that return > characters from the end of a string. > > Example: > > $string = 'foobar'; > print $string[-1]; // prints 'r'; > print $string[-2]; // prints 'a'; Good idea. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include