Re: Question on foreach()?

From: Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:52:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Question on foreach()?
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I should have been more clear, I guess. I am fully aware of the foreach($array as $key => $value) structure. What I am asking is WHY the shorter version deals with values instead of keys. This was more a ? for one of the core guys, trying to understand conceptually WHY something was done. On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote the following to waldschrott : > Quoting waldschrott <waldschrott@kiffen.de>: > > > Would be nice if we had > > foreach($array key $key) > > or something like this, > > foreach($array => $key) would not make sense... > > Uh... http://www.php.net/manual/control-structures.foreach.php: > > foreach(array_expression as $key => $value) > > -chuck > > -- > Charles Hagenbuch, <chagenbu@wso.williams.edu> > -- > " ... I mean, who wouldn't look forward to waking up in the morning and > having a nice big bowl of frosted For-Next Loops ... " - Slashdot comment >

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