Re: nulling out an array
| From: | Stephen Hui | Date: | Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:25:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: nulling out an array | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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You could try
while (condition)
{
$array = array ();
...
}
Hope this helps.
Stephen.
Marc Swanson wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have an array that I want to destroy/null after each iteration of a while
> loop. essentially I'm pulling data from a database and I am running some
> calculations that I need to clear after each loop. What would really be
> cool is if I could find a way to declare the array local to the inside of
> the loop so it would go out of scope on block exit (each trip through the
> loop), but I notice that PHP seems to only do this in the case of
> subroutines. What is the best way to accomplish what I am doing? I tried
> setting the array = -1 at the beginning of the loop, but that causes an
> error when I try to treat it as an array later.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Marc-
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