Hello jtl, hello documentation-team,

Friday, July 9, 2004, 2:36:20 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Marcus,

>> See here:
>> http://php.net/strspn
>> http://php.net/strcspn

> Wow.  They're already there.

>> And the names are colliding with
>> http://php.net/strpbrk

> Looks like I'm not the only person who couldn't find them.

>> please read the docs.

> Dude, I have spent hours reading the docs and have many times scanned
> the string functions looking for a way to do this.  There are so many
> functions, it's hard to find what you want.  The way the online php manual
> pages are set up, I have to first guess from the function name whether the
> function might possibly do the job, so that I can then click on the name
> to see what the function does.

> Maybe the right answer is to use less cryptic function names.  It would
> also have helped to have strpos and related functions references these two
> functions as related functions.

That's probably a good idea to somehow link them to gether more closely.


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