On Sat, April 30, 2005 8:16 pm, Rasmus Lerdorf said:
>> php -a
>> <?php
>> $foo = array('a'=>'apple', 'b'=>'banana', 'c'=>'coconut');
>> while (list($k, $v) = each($foo)){
>> echo "$k: $v\n";
>> }
>> ?>
>> Content-type: text/html
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>>
>> a: apple
>> b: banana
>> c: coconut
>>
>> It has worked just fine with alpha indices since PHP 3.0rc2, at a
>> minimum,
>> cuz I've been doing it that long.
>>
>> I dunno who was smoking what that day they typed the documentation :-)
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's not an "undocumented feature" that it works.
>
> Richard, this is what the docs are talking about:
>
> list($a,$b,$c,$d) = array('a','b','c','d');
> echo $a,$b,$c,$d;
>
> vs.
>
> list($a,$b,$c,$d) = array('a'=>'a','b'=>'b','c'=>'c','d'=>'d');
> echo $a,$b,$c,$d;
>
> In your case you are calling each() which itself returns a numerically
> indexed array.
I realized how stupid my post was about 30 seconds after sending it.
I plead sleep deprivation :-)
The correct answer, of course, was http://php.net/extract
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