Re: Strange string stuff -- maybe everything is ending...

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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
>>
>> _____________________
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>> 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);
>
>
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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

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