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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/05/08 02:27
Tom wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:30:52 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote...
>> adam.timberlake@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I was reading the following article yesterday:
>>> http://www.talkphp.com/vbarticles.php?do=article&articleid=41&title=using-the-internal-array-pointers-to-access-elements-in-arrays
>>>
>>> What struck me while reading it was how very little we hear about the
>>> array internal pointers !! I've been in PHP now for a good 2 years,
>>> and I've never heard these little guys mentioned before.
>>>
>>> My question is... what do you use internal pointers for, and why?
>>>
>> I use them a fair amount. Sometimes you need to run through an array,
>> and foreach() just doesn't do what you need (or makes the code more
>> complicated).
>>
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> I've gotten into the habit of using a for or foreach loop when I need to look at
> all the values. I haven't tried using these before, but definitely could come in
> handy down the road.
>
> Tom
Yep, they do - especially when you want extra tests to exit the loop.
It can make your code cleaner.
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