On Jun 25, 2024, at 22:18, Mike Schinkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> This leads me to think strtok() should not be deprecated given how inefficient
> string handling in PHP can otherwise be, at least not without a much more efficient object for
> string parsing.
What would be really useful as a replacement for strtok() - among other things - would be a function
analogous to MySQL's SUBSTRING_INDEX():
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/string-functions.html#function_substring-index
Where SUBSTRING_INDEX($a, $b, $c) is functionally equivalent to explode($a, $b)[$c], but with the
added ability to use negative indices to count from the end of the input.