Re: question abput While (list

Thanks for that, but I understand it in the way you have use it, but what about in the example I gave in the context of While ( ... )? regards Allan Goacher Cybercandy Ltd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morten Dreier" <mdreier@pobox.com> To: "Cybercandy Ltd" <allan@cybercandy.co.uk> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] question abput While (list > On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Cybercandy Ltd wrote: > > > I've been busting my poor meager brain over this and can't understand this > > line of > > code please can someone explain to me what it means!? > > > > while (list(,$line) = each($incoming)) { > > I use (list($key,$line)=each($dbresult)), and that basically means that > you take each line of the array $dbresult( consisting of a key and > data), and assigning it to $key and $line. It is simply a way of assigning > two variables at a time. > From the manual: > > list > Like array(), this is not really a function, but a language > construct. list() is used to assign a list of variables in one operation. > > -- > Morten Dreier > Institutt for Datateknikk og Informasjonsvitenskap > http://www.ifi.ntnu.no/~mdreier/ > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >