Re: [pr-645] Add offset to reset() and end()

Hi Levi, On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Tjerk Meesters <tjerk.meesters@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've added a PR that satisfies #31375. >> >> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/645 >> >> It adds a second optional argument to reset() and end() to specify the >> number of elements that should be skipped (forward or backward). >> >> Currently, negative offsets are ignored. Should we raise a notice for such >> cases? Something like: >> >> "Negative offsets are not supported." >> >> Any feedback is welcome. Thanks! >> > > Do you have a specific use-case for these changes? > Surely you must have seen the feature request on bugs.php.net ;-) One example could be, traverse array but skip the first N elements: $array = [1, 2, 3]; for (reset($array, 1); $current = each($array); ) { var_dump($current['value']); } // output: int(2) int(3) Or, get second last element: $second_last = end($array, 1); // int(2) -- -- Tjerk