RE: [PHP] IF inside LOOP? <-- SOLVED

Thanks for two things Martin: First for teaching me about the "-1" operation (which seems logic now) and second, for getting me into the "?:" operator. I've read something about it in the books, but didn't tough it was really useful 'till now. It worked perfectly. C. > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Towell [mailto:martin.towell@world.net] > Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 11:05 PM > To: 'César Aracena'; PHP General List > Subject: RE: [PHP] IF inside LOOP? > > try using this if statement instead > > if ($m < $num_rows2 - 1) > > or even use the ?: operator > > echo ($m < $num_rows2 - 1 ? ", " : "."); > > > -----Original Message----- > From: César Aracena [mailto:icaam@icaam.com.ar] > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:04 PM > To: PHP General List > Subject: [PHP] IF inside LOOP? > > > Hi all. > > I've been fooling around with a LOOP which should show one or more text > string stored in separate rows in a DB. The trick would we to separate > them with commas (,) when there's another string to show or end it with > a period (.) if no other row is found according to the SELECT criteria. > This is what I have so far: > > for ($m=0; $m<$num_rows2; $m++) > { > $row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2); > > echo $row2[devlanguage]; > > if ($m < $num_rows2) > { > echo ", "; > } > else > { > echo "."; > } > } > > The problem is that the LOOP stops as it's told to do, keeping the ELSE > statement from doing it's work, resulting in comma separated string as > it should, but also add an extra comma at the end of it instead of a > period. What approach should I use? > > Thanks in advance, > > <mailto:webmaster@icaam.com.ar> Cesar Aracena > CE / MCSE+I > Neuquen, Argentina > +54.299.6356688 > +54.299.4466621 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php