note 20087 added to function.next

From: Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:39:09 +0000
Subject: note 20087 added to function.next
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> Don't try this and expect it to work: > > while(next($array)) > > the loop will never begin on the first item in the array > since next() advances the pointer BEFORE returning > the values. reset() returns the first element in the array, so it's not such a bad thing that next() returns the second. To avoid the overhead of using list() with each(), you can simply do this: $elem = reset($your_array) do { //.. stuff with $elem; } while($elem = next($your_array)); this is, of course, assuming that the array is not empty, but it's easy to wrap the whole thing in an if(). -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.next.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+20087 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+20087 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+20087

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