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Doc Bug #70594 behviour of unset inside foreach is undocumented
Submitted: 2015-09-28 01:14 UTC Modified: 2017-01-28 17:36 UTC
From: lucas at threeam dot com dot au Assigned:
Status: Open Package: Documentation problem
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 [2015-09-28 01:14 UTC] lucas at threeam dot com dot au
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.unset
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Does not explicitly mention whether a construct like

// Now delete every item, but leave the array itself intact:
foreach ($array as $i => $value) {
    unset($array[$i]);
}

is safe, even though it's implied since that example comes from a (non-user-contributed) note in http://www.php.net/language.types.array


You should probably also mention that this does not hold for 'for' loops unless the size of array is captured first. e.g. this is bad:

for ($i = 0; $i < count($a); $i++) {
    if (!sometest($a[$i])) {
        unset($a[$i]);
    }
}

but this is okay:

for ($i = 0, $n = count($a); $i < $n; $i++) {
    if (!sometest($a[$i])) {
        unset($a[$i]);
    }
}


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 [2017-01-28 17:36 UTC] cmb@php.net
In my opinion, the `foreach` man page should document whats
happening if elements/properties are added or removed
during the iteration.
 
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