On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 at 19:06, Mike Schinkel <m...@newclarity.net> wrote:
> strtok() > ===== > strtok() is found 35k times in GitHub: > >> https://github.com/search?q=md5%28+language%3APHP+&type=code > > It is a commonly used as a "left part of string up to a character" in > addition to its intended use for tokenizing. > > I would prefer not deprecated because of BC breakage, but IF it is deprecated > I would suggest adding a one-for-one replacement function for the "left part > of string up to a character" use-case; maybe `str_left("abc.txt",".")` > returning `"abc"`. For this exact case of extracting a file name without an extension, you should really just use: pathinfo ( $filepath , PATHINFO_FILENAME); But for something more generic, you can just do: explode($delimiter, $str)[0]; So I really don't see why we would need an "str_left()" function. Best regards, Gina P. Banyard
