Re: Something interesting I found in PHP manual

Quoting rsen010@ec.auckland.ac.nz: > Hi, > When I was going through “Chapter 7.types” in PHP manual I found something > confusing regarding the following statement “Having e.g. the highest index > being -6 will result in -5 being the new key” (under Syntax – specifying with > > array()). > What actually happens is it Php starts indexing from zero if lowest index is > > negative value unless there is no index of zero. > But amazing thing is sometimes it omit some values unless. > Just consider the following examples. > Ex:1 > $a = array(-3=>'February', 'March'); > print_r($a); > This will prints out the folloiwng > Array ( [-3] => February [0] => March ) > > > Ex:2 > $a = array( 'January', '0'=>'a','b', 'c', > -3=>'February', 'March'); > print_r($a); > > This will prints out the folloiwng > Array ( [0] => a [1] => b [2] => c [-3] => February [3] => March ) > > Please be kind to check this out if I’m correct. > Thanks > Naleen > > > >