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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Negative string offsets
From: admacedo@gmail.com (Daniel Macedo)

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Pretty interesting, but I'm sure this is (yet another) stepping stone until
someone suggests the Python syntax for slicing strings and arrays :p


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>
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