Re: Avoiding NOTICEs with list()

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:54:45PM -0500, trlists@clayst.com wrote: > This construct: > > list($v1, $v2, $v3) = explode($sep, $string, 3); > > will generate NOTICE level errors if there are not enough parts of the > string to fill all the variables in the list. What I really want is > for list() to set the variables that have a corresponding array > element, and then either don't change the others, or set them to NULL -- > I could live with either approach. > > Anyone see a way to get rid of these errors short of this approach: > > $parts = explode($sep, $string, 3); > switch(count($parts)) { > case 3: > $v3 = $parts[2]; > case 2: > $v2 = $parts[1]; > case 1: > $v1 = $parts[0]; > } > > I did try @list(... and it made no difference. I just tried it with php 4.3.8 and it did not throw a NOTICE with @list. I suppose you could try @explode as well as @list. -- Jim Kaufman Linux Evangelist public key 0x6D802619, CISSP# 65668