On 31.03.11 16:41, Philip Olson wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Martin Jansen wrote:
>> Both str_startswith and str_endswith have been suggested in the past:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?t=121647230100001&r=1&w=2
>>
>> I recently got around to merge them into a largely unfinished extension
>> so they are archived somewhere safe: https://github.com/mj/php-ext-str
>
> I see str_contains() on the TODO there. I've always wanted in_string() so am
> glad to see a similar item. Using strpos() for this task feels dirty, much
> like using arrpos() for arrays would ;)
>From time to time I have wondered if it made sense to add a new operator
"in" that works on variables of different type and could replace
in_string/str_contains:
if ("a" in "abc") { ... }
if ("a" in array("a", "b", "c")) { ... }
if ("a" in $obj) { /* true if $obj->__contains("a") returned true */ }
I suspect there is a massive potential for WTF issues in there and that
most people would hate this feature. Which is why I am only thinking
out loud here -- I have zero intentions to suggest this as a future
enhancement for PHP. ;-)
- Martin
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