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Thanks. Let me rework my original question then. Why the hell didn't it always work? php > $a = "Hello"; php > echo $a[0]; H php > echo $a[0][0]; PHP

Thanks. Let me rework my original question then. Why the hell didn't it always work? php > $a = "Hello"; php > echo $a[0]; H php > echo $a[0][0]; PHP Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in php shell code on line 1

tlack 15y ago
PHP always seemed to have something weird in the parser about subscripts/array indexes. It's been there since I started using it during PHP3. Another similar fix they performed is making func()[0] work - before you had to do $tmp = func(); $tmp[0]. An old, old bug finally fixed.