note 9213 deleted from control-structures.foreach by sniper
| From: | sniper@php.net | Date: | Wed, 08 Oct 2003 04:12:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 9213 deleted from control-structures.foreach by sniper | ||
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Note Submitter: info@borderblue.com
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As the documentation notes, and as another use pointed out above, foreach operates on a COPY of the
array. I was trying to delete some elements from an ordered array and have the later elements shift
automatically, using foreach, the below example DID NOT work:
foreach ($blah as $key => $value) {
if ($value < 1) {
array_splice($blah,$key,1);
reset($blah);
}
}
I think the array_splice worked, but the reset didn't, so it would delete one element, but
possibly miss others because $key would keep advancing. The code that seems to work is:
reset($blah);
while (list($key,$value) = each($blah)) {
if ($value < 1) {
array_splice($blah,$key,1);
reset($blah);
}
}