On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 at 19:06, Mike Schinkel <[email protected]> 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