I believe if drupal provides a wrapper function, why not use it.<br>Yes, drupal_substr is slower than substr itself with large amount of information to be processed and with multiple hits on a page, this can impact the page load time too.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nan_wich@bellsouth.net" target="_blank">nan_wich@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span>Coder keeps flagging this, so I thought I'd ask about it. Following a parse_url() of a URL input from a form, is the use of drupal_substr() really necessary, or is a basic substr() adequate?<br>
</span></div><div> </div><div><font color="#ff007f" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif" size="4"><i><b>Nancy</b></i></font> <br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></div>
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