PHP array_str_contains() RFC Proposes Substring Filtering
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PHP array_str_contains() RFC Proposes Substring Filtering
PHP's array_str_contains() RFC would replace a substring-filtering callback with one function call. See the before-and-after code and its PHP 8.7 status.
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