Re: while question

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Hi,

i'm on PHP training and our lector is telling us that to avoid counting an
array item amout thanks count($my_array), he tells we can do:
while($my_array)
{
 ... do something
}
but from experience this is an infinity loop...

it should be always something like
$count = count($my_array);
while($i <= $count)
{
...
do something
...
$i++;
}

has someone already use such syntax ? i mean as the first one.
thx.


Probably the easiest way for doing this is using foreach:

$a = array(1,2,3,4,5);

foreach ($a as $i) {
   print $i."<br>";
}

This outputs:
1
2
3
4
5

This for e.g. gives an infinite loop:

$a = array(1,2,3,4,5);

while ($a) {
   print $i."<br>";
   $i++;
}

So you are right because $a will always evaluate as true since it not empty. For these kinds of questions you should read the manual first and then ask here.

http://gr2.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.while.php

--
Thodoris


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