Chris Boget wrote: > function test() { > static $i = 0; > > $i++; > $retval = ( $i <= 10 ) ? $i : ''; > > return $retval; > > } > while( $bob = test()) { > echo $bob . '<br>'; > > } > > You would expect the while loop to go on forever just looking > at the above code. I wouldn't, but apparently you do. :) > However, what's happening is that when the > empty string is getting returned due to $i being > 10, the while > loop is resolving FALSE when $bob is set to the value of the > empty string. > Is there any way that I can force this not to happen? That the > while loop resolves as FALSE only when the function actually > returns a (boolean) FALSE value? while ( ($bob = test()) !== false ) { echo $bob . '<br>'; } should do the trick. HTH -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php