Re: foreach - Array

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of David
Haynes of comp.lang.php make plain:

iavian wrote:
hi

i want to modify an array in foreach loop

foreach($array as $ele){
$ele = $some_random_string;
}

i should see here the modified $array .

thnaks in advance

foreach( $array as &$ele ) {
$ele = $some_random_string;
}

should work as you want it to.

Only in PHP5.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php

"Unless the array is referenced, foreach operates on a copy of the
specified array and not the array itself....As of PHP 5, you can easily
modify array's elements by preceding $value with &. This will assign
reference instead of copying the value."

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/
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