On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 12/21/2012 5:16 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: > >> On Dec 21, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> >>>> Never realized that you could address a string as an array of chars, >>> which you are doing. Could that be the issue? Or did I learn something >>> new? Or should you have used substr to remove that last char? >>> >> >> Jim: >> >> I guess you learned something new -- that's good. >> >> A string is just a "string" of chars. >> >> As such, if you define: >> >> $a = "tedd"; >> >> then: >> >> $a[0] is 't'; >> $a[1] is 'e' >> $a[2] is 'd' >> $a[3] is 'd' >> >> The only confusing thing here is the length of the string -- in this case >> the length of this string is four, but $a[4] has not been defined. >> >> Cheers, >> >> tedd >> >> _____________________ >> tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://sperling.com >> >> >> >> From what I do know, there shouldn't be an a[4]. > In any case, let's assume that there is a bug in the string logic that > you're using. Why not just use substr? > > $topic = substr($topic,0,-1); > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Neat idea Tedd, but judging by a quick test, I don't think changing the value of the string is entirely supported though that notation. php > $str = 'blah'; php > $str[3] = ''; php > echo $str . PHP_EOL; bla php > echo strlen($str); 4 -nathan
