Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to convert a given string into an array of chars=

without using a separator.

That is, is there a function

mySplit

with

mySplit('example') =3D=3D array('e', 'x', 'a', 'm', 'p' 'l' 'e') ?




Thanks

Horst





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Horst Jäger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if it is possible to convert a given string into an array of
> chars without using a separator.
>
> That is, is there a function
>
> mySplit
>
> with
>
> mySplit('example') == array('e', 'x', 'a', 'm', 'p' 'l' 'e') ?

$chars_array = preg_split('//', 'example', -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horst Jäger [mailto:h.jaeger [at] medienkonzepte.de]
> Sent: 10 November 2004 09:51
>
> I wonder if it is possible to convert a given string into an
> array of chars
> without using a separator.
>
> That is, is there a function
>
> mySplit
>
> with
>
> mySplit('example') =3D=3D array('e', 'x', 'a', 'm', 'p' 'l' 'e') ?

Do you absolutely need it as an array? If indexing by character would
suffice, just use PHP's {} syntax:

$s =3D 'example';
echo $s{0}; // e
echo $s{1}; // x
// etc.

Cheers!

Mike

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On 10 November 2004 13:37, Horst Jäger wrote:

(Please keep this on list -- others may be able to help better/faster than
me!)

> > > mySplit('example') =3D=3D array('e', 'x', 'a', 'm', 'p' 'l' 'e') ?
> >
> > Do you absolutely need it as an array? If indexing by character
> > would suffice, just use PHP's {} syntax:
> >
> > $s =3D 'example';
> > echo $s{0}; // e
> > echo $s{1}; // x
> > // etc.
>
> I am thinking about complexity.
> How is a string implemented in PHP? A deque<char> or a char* ?

Pass -- this looks like a question for PHP's developers, not the denizens of
php-general who are mostly just humble users. But I would expect a char*.

> How does $s{n} acces the n-th char?
>
> 1. Does it go to the beginning of the string and then jump
> from one char to
> the next, counting the instances and return when the n-th ionstance
> is reached?
>
> 2. Or does it jump to the n-th char directly?

Given the nature of PHP, I'd be astonished if it did 1. But again, this
looks more like a question for the PHP developers, not php-general.

Cheers!

Mike

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Ford, Mike wrote:

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On 10 November 2004 16:19, raditha dissanayake wrote:

> Ford, Mike wrote:
>
> > To view the terms under which this email is distributed,
> please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm
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> are you in a position to impose any terms (not that i have
> visited your
> link) on an email that get's distributed to thousands of
> readers, get's
> archived on hundreds of sites and possibly ends up in the
> inbox of bots
> designed to harvest email addresses?

No. But I'm also not in a position to prevent this ludicrosity from being
prefixed to all outgoing mail from where I work. I would suppress it if I
could, but I can't. Sorry. You'll just have to judge whether the general
standard of my replies warrants putting up with the noise factor, but I
would understand entirely if you filtered me to /dev/null.

Cheers!

Mike

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:56:28 -0000, Ford, Mike <M.Ford [at] leedsmet.ac.uk>
wrote:

> On 10 November 2004 13:37, Horst Jäger wrote:
>
> (Please keep this on list -- others may be able to help better/faster
> than
> me!)
>

>>
>> I am thinking about complexity.
>> How is a string implemented in PHP? A deque<char> or a char* ?

char * in a zval (and you really shouldn't use deque<char>, given the
existance of string)

>> How does $s{n} acces the n-th char?
>>
>> 1. Does it go to the beginning of the string and then jump
>> from one char to
>> the next, counting the instances and return when the n-th ionstance
>> is reached?
>>
>> 2. Or does it jump to the n-th char directly?
>

I haven't benchmarked it, but I would assume strings derefing is
signficantly faster than arrays, as arrays in php are actually hashtables,
while $a{5} is just a straight deref.

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