Re: [PHP4BETA] Trying to be elegant...

Johan Ekenberg writes: > In the "elegant spirit of Perl", I tried to > use the following code in PHP: > > ---- > while (list(,$val) = each(array("a", "b", "c"))) { > print "$val<BR>\n"; > } > ---- > > It didn't work. I had to assign the array > to a variable and pass the variable to each(). > Is there a way to write this in a more elegant, > "Perl spirit" way in PHP? > > (This is obviously not a matter of high technical > importance, but one of artistic and poetic freedom :-) > > Very best regards, > /Johan Ekenberg What the code above looks like it says is: 1. Create an array with elements 'a', 'b', and 'c'; 2. Get the first element; 3. Assign that element to $val; 4. Print $val; 4. goto 1; The each() is evaluated on every loop, as you intended, but so is the array(), which I don't believe you want. foreach() works though--just saw Zeev's message on this :). Cheers, Torben +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+