note 52254 added to function.shuffle
| From: | boycott-riaa at miqrogroove dot com | Date: | Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:13:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 52254 added to function.shuffle | ||
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Unlike other array functions, shuffle() does not return an array! The following will NOT work as
expected:
$array = shuffle(range(1, 5));
Instead:
$array = range(1, 5);
shuffle($array);
This is probably intentional to make it work faster.
Enjoy
-- Miqro
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