stat/fstat

From:	Zeev Suraski	Date:	Thu, 10 May 2001 22:07:24 +0000
Subject:	stat/fstat
Groups:	php.dev
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Hey, I just got around to writing a PHP script that uses stat(), and was quite surprised to find that instead of using string indices, it uses hardcoded/obscure numeric indices, e.g.: Array (

    [0] => 2050
    [1] => 1114462
    [2] => 16877
    [3] => 2
    [4] => 503
    [5] => 513
    [6] => 11065
    [7] => 1024
    [8] => 989532201
    [9] => 989532201
    [10] => 989532201
    [11] => 4096
    [12] => 2

) Is there any reason for this? If not, I'd like to add meaningful names as well (I guess it's way too late to remove the numeric indices) Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/