note 104042 deleted from function.array-splice by danbrown

Note Submitter: ollyatstithians ---- doug at badblue dot com: That is not unexpected behaviour, it is as the documentation says: "Returns the array consisting of the extracted elements." In your example, $aIn is the array that gets truncated, $aOut is an array of the elements that were removed. As the offset is more than the size of the array, no elements were removed and so an empty array was returned. This should make it clearer: <?php $array = array('Apple', 'Pear', 'Cherry'); $return = array_splice($array, 2); var_dump($array); // array('Apple', 'Pear'); var_dump($return); // array('Cherry'); ?>