curly braces or square brackets?

[Grande News]

Hi, I've got some PHP code that looks like this

$cura= ord($data{$pnum*2});
$curb = ord($data{$pnum*2+1});

Notice the curly braces -- does using them make any difference, or will
square brackets do the same thing?

Thanks
B

[Rik Wasmus]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:31:50 +0200, Grande News <bi**@csgs.comwrote:

Hi, I've got some PHP code that looks like this

$cura= ord($data{$pnum*2});
$curb = ord($data{$pnum*2+1});

Notice the curly braces -- does using them make any difference, or will
square brackets do the same thing?

It will do the same thing. However:
http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-n...cleanup-for-vs

Although it still doesn't throw an E_STRICT in 5.2, I'd use square
brackets instead of curly braces.
--
Rik Wasmus

[macca]

Use square brackets. Curly braces were a fad. something to do with the
parser interpretation or something. I heard that they will be
depreceted as of php6 though.

[Henri]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:31:50 -0500, Grande News wrote:

Hi, I've got some PHP code that looks like this

$cura= ord($data{$pnum*2});
$curb = ord($data{$pnum*2+1});

Notice the curly braces -- does using them make any difference, or will
square brackets do the same thing?

Thanks
B

curly braces are perl syntax.