> You would expect the while loop to go on forever just looking > at the above code. 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? I think this should do it. function test() { static $i = 0; $i++; $retval = ( $i <= 10 ) ? $i : ''; return $retval; } while( ($bob = test()) !== false ) { echo $bob . 'ECHO<br>'; } -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php