("") as an empty string in php? [duplicate]

Question

What's the problem for the following code:

function rString($s) {
     $news = "";
     for ($i = strlen($s); $i >= 0; $i--) {
         $news += $s[$i];
     }
     return $news;
}
echo rString("happy birthday");

It returns 0 which is unexpected, I thought "" will be an empty string, and for every iteration the last character of a string should append to the $news (that is, to reverse a string). But it seems like "" is not accepted in php?

Alex Howansky · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-02 00:11:03Z

4

+ is the arithmetic addition operator:

$news += $s[$i];

You want ., which is the string concatenation operator:

$news .= $s[$i];

Or... just use strrev()...

answered Apr 2, 2021 at 0:11

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