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Bug #24234 a recursive function doesn't return an expected string
Submitted: 2003-06-17 21:47 UTC Modified: 2003-06-18 03:47 UTC
From: christian_m_caron at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 4.3.2 OS: FreeBSD 4.8
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2003-06-17 21:47 UTC] christian_m_caron at hotmail dot com
Description:
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The recursive function looks in an array for a certain text. When it finds it, it returns the text. The problem is that it never returns it (but if I put a print statement instead of a return, it will print it).

Reproduce code:
---------------
$arr = array('0'=>array('0'=>'zero-zero','1'=>'zero-un'), '1'=>array('0'=>'un-zero','1'=>'un-un'));

print search_array('zero-un', $arr);

function search_array ($page, $item) {
 if (is_array($item)) {
  foreach ($item as $k => $v) {
   if (is_array($v)) {
    search_array($page, $v);
   }
   elseif ($v == $page) {
    return $v;
   }
  }
 } else {
  return "Not an array!";
 }
}

Expected result:
----------------
zero-un

Actual result:
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Nothing!

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 [2003-06-18 03:47 UTC] mgf@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

You don't do anything with the return value of the recursive call to search_array().

Please ask on a support forum such as php-general if you need more help with this.
 
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