Re: counting nested array

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On 8/16/05, Ing. Josué Aranda <josuearanda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The number of the branches is not always the same.. (it depends on the
> query).. when i use count($array, COUNT_RECURSIVE) for nested arrays..
> it give to me the total including the nodes in the branches ( in this
> case 28).. now here is the question, how i can get only the last nodes
> in this case ... exist a easy way to do it?. or its necessary to make
> a funcion with a bunch of foreach?.. any suggestions are welcome =o)
> thanks!

If I understand you correctly, you only want the leaves of your tree -
in your example, that would be 20?

I don't think there's a convenient builtin function that'll do it, but
it's not hard to write your own:

<?php

function leaf_count($item) {
  $count = 0;

  if (!is_array($item)) { return 1; }

  foreach ($item as $element) {
    $count += leaf_count($element);
  }

  return $count;
}

print leaf_count($array);

?>

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