I just discovered that the count() function to return the length of an array does not seem to be returning the proper value.

I have an array of length 858, and it keeps telling me it's 464 !

If I manually force the loop I can output all elements, whereas if I use a for() loop with "$i < count($array)" as I usually do, I get only part of it !

I suspect this maybe caused by the fact that this is an array of counters, where not all single elements might get initialized.
(i.e. some counters increase, some remain NULL).

Here is the code that gave up the problem :

<?
$keywords = $HTTP_POST_VARS["keywords"];
$lang = $HTTP_POST_VARS["lang"];
$prov = $HTTP_POST_VARS["prov"];

preg_match("/\w+/",$keywords,$words);

$dbm = dbmopen("search_index.db","r");

$recs = array();

for ( $i = 0 ; $i < count($words) ; $i++ ) {
        if ( dbmexists($dbm,$words[$i]) ) {
                $recs = dbmfetch($dbm,$words[$i]);
                $recar = split("-",$recs);
                for ( $ii = 0 ; $ii < count($recar) ; $ii++ ) {
                        $counter[$recar[$ii]]++;
                }
        }
}

This is the working version, replace "1000" with "count($counter)", and it doesn't :

for ( $i = 0 ; $i < 1000 ; $i++ ) {
        echo $i." : ".$counter[$i]."<BR>";
}

?>