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Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: (PHP4BETA) New function chrcount From: thies <email protected>
Date: 04/25/00

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:49:31AM -0400, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> Well, the new function (now named something str_count I believe) does more
> than just count characters, but also substrings. So it does have
> different functionality than count_chars. Plus, this function only keeps
> track of a single character, not every byte value. Not that much of a
> difference, but perhaps a little faster.

    if the function does something different - ok.

>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 thies <email protected> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:23:30PM -0400, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> > > That sounds a lot like a regular expression matching engine to me,
> > > especially when you get into substrings that have suffixes that are also
> > > non-trivial prefixes.
> > >
> > > I like the str_chr_freq suggestion, any objections to that?
> >
> > hmm
> >
> > $d = count_chars("some stupid string");
> >
> > echo $d["s"]; // prints the freqency of "s" in "some stupid
> > string"
> >
> > i don't see why we need it!
> >
> > tc
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Ted Parnefors wrote:
> > >
> > > > How about if you instead extend its functionallity to not only count the
> > > > occurencies of characters, but instead include the possibility to count
> > > > the number of occurencies of substrings, and hence call the function
> > > > count_occurencies ?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers!
> > > >
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