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Gettext_Translations::parenthesize_plural_exression( string $expression ): string

Since
2.8.0
Source
wp-includes/pomo/translations.php:344
Adds parentheses to the inner parts of ternary operators in plural expressions, because PHP evaluates ternary operators from left to right

Compatibility

Deprecated in WordPress 6.5.0. Use the Plural_Forms class instead.

WordPress
since 2.8.0
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$expressionstring
the expression without parentheses

Return value

string
the expression with parentheses added

Performance profile

How much work a call to Gettext_Translations::parenthesize_plural_exression() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Trivial

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Scales with input

The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.

Instructions
14

Executed per call on PHP 8.5. The body compiles to 39.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What one call costs · 1 distinct outcome

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost Gettext_Translations::parenthesize_plural_exression() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
!$i14rtrim()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev39145
8.539145
8.439145
8.339145
8.2391451 more instruction than PHP 8.1
8.138145
7.438145

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Source code

		public function parenthesize_plural_exression( $expression ) {			$expression .= ';';			$res         = '';			$depth       = 0;			for ( $i = 0; $i < strlen( $expression ); ++$i ) {				$char = $expression[ $i ];				switch ( $char ) {					case '?':						$res .= ' ? (';						++$depth;						break;					case ':':						$res .= ') : (';						break;					case ';':						$res  .= str_repeat( ')', $depth ) . ';';						$depth = 0;						break;					default:						$res .= $char;				}			}			return rtrim( $res, ';' );		}

Changelog

Introduced in 2.8.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

6.5.0
Deprecated. Use the Plural_Forms class instead.from the docblock
2.8.0
Introduced.from the docblock

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