The beauty of string parsing part 2

By chx ~ Posted Wed, 07/01/2009 - 06:46

Somebody suggested that I use apostrophes in my string parsing examples. Sure!

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$array['test'] = "string used\n";
echo "$array['test']";
echo "{$array['test']}";
echo "${array['test']}";
$array = array();
$array['test'][1] = "string used\n";
echo "$array['test'][1]";
echo "{$array['test'][1]}";
echo "${array['test'][1]}";
?>

So what will happen?
Well, half of this is a syntax error. You need to comment out a few:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$array['test'] = "string used\n";
#echo "$array['test']";
echo "{$array['test']}";
echo "${array['test']}";
$array = array();
$array['test'][1] = "string used\n";
#echo "$array['test'][1]";
echo "{$array['test'][1]}";
#echo "${array['test'][1]}";
?>

So... are you still sure the WTF comes from me omitting apostrophes? :p

Comments

Whaaat? Why are you

Submitted by Garrett Albright (not verified) on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 12:14.

Whaaat? Why are you commenting lines with a hash instead of two slashes? That's the *real* WTF! How can you ignore PHP/Drupal coding standards so brazenly?!?!?!

A hash? The Python dark side

Submitted by RommeDeSerieux (not verified) on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 01:18.

A hash? The Python dark side got you too? :P

P.S.
I know it's valid, just an observation.

Totally glad I'm not the only

Submitted by Fiona (not verified) on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 05:16.

Totally glad I'm not the only one who has found herself commenting PHP with hashes.

It's valid syntax, why not use it? It's easier than // to type and pick out at a glance.

Infact all the alternate syntax that PHP gives you for uh.. everything is a WTF in and of itself.

er

Submitted by hurr (not verified) on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 08:40.

i think the wtf is more along the lines of you thinking you are smarter than the already documented string evaluation procedures.

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