prepend operator?

[lawpoop]

Hello -

Is there an operator where I can prepend a string to a string, without
repeating the variable name? I'm aware of the concatenation operator,
where you can do

$string .= $ending;

but I would like to do

$start = "mis";
$middle = "apprehend";
$end = "ing";

echo $string =. $start;

"misapprehend"

$string .= $end
echo $string =. $start

"misapprehending"

?

[Rik Wasmus]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:25:37 +0200, <la*****@gmail.comwrote:

Is there an operator where I can prepend a string to a string, without
repeating the variable name?

No easy one, any possibility will likely be more typing then less typing,
and that's the only thing to gain from it.
--
Rik Wasmus
....spamrun finished

[sheldonlg]

la*****@gmail.com wrote:

Hello -

Is there an operator where I can prepend a string to a string, without
repeating the variable name? I'm aware of the concatenation operator,
where you can do

$string .= $ending;

but I would like to do

$start = "mis";
$middle = "apprehend";
$end = "ing";

echo $string =. $start;

"misapprehend"

$string .= $end
echo $string =. $start

"misapprehending"

?

I assume, based upon the rest of your post, that you meant $string
rather than $middle. So, with that in mind, what is wrong with:

$string = $start . $string . $end;

?

[Paul Lautman]

sheldonlg wrote:

>
I assume, based upon the rest of your post, that you meant $string
rather than $middle. So, with that in mind, what is wrong with:

$string = $start . $string . $end;

?

The question was: "Is there an operator where I can prepend a string to a
string, without repeating the variable name?"

Read the question carefully, then look at your answer, then see if you can
see what is wrong with it!

[sheldonlg]

Paul Lautman wrote:

sheldonlg wrote:

>I assume, based upon the rest of your post, that you meant $string
rather than $middle. So, with that in mind, what is wrong with:

$string = $start . $string . $end;

?

The question was: "Is there an operator where I can prepend a string to a
string, without repeating the variable name?"

Read the question carefully, then look at your answer, then see if you can
see what is wrong with it!

I saw that, and my "what uis wrong with" was not meant as an answer but,
rather, I was saying "What's the big deal? It is just so simple to use
this". (Speech inflexion doesn't present itself well on the internet).

Anyway, just for the sake of argument suppose that there were such an
operator and it was =. Then to do the job you would need to say:

$string .= $end;
$string =. $start;

It seems to me that this is more complicated and more typing and more
error-prone than what I presented.

[Jeff]

sheldonlg wrote:

Paul Lautman wrote:

>sheldonlg wrote:

>>I assume, based upon the rest of your post, that you meant $string
rather than $middle. So, with that in mind, what is wrong with:

$string = $start . $string . $end;

?

The question was: "Is there an operator where I can prepend a string
to a string, without repeating the variable name?"

Read the question carefully, then look at your answer, then see if you
can see what is wrong with it!

I saw that, and my "what uis wrong with" was not meant as an answer but,
rather, I was saying "What's the big deal? It is just so simple to use
this". (Speech inflexion doesn't present itself well on the internet).

Since the OP is gone, and I certainly don't know if meant "prepend"
instead of "append".

But lets say he did.

Why not unshift it on an array, then join the array with ''? Or reverse
sort later?

Jeff

>
Anyway, just for the sake of argument suppose that there were such an
operator and it was =. Then to do the job you would need to say:

$string .= $end;
$string =. $start;

It seems to me that this is more complicated and more typing and more
error-prone than what I presented.