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Bug #33230 Array() attepts comma before the closing ) and it is not mentioned
Submitted: 2005-06-03 13:31 UTC Modified: 2005-06-03 13:34 UTC
From: phpbug at munaw dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Arrays related
PHP Version: 4.3.11 OS: windows 2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-06-03 13:31 UTC] phpbug at munaw dot com
Description:
------------
Hello,

As I know, array() should not accept comma after the last element but it does and var_export generates it the same way. If it accepts this syntax, it could be mentioned in the documentation.

Reproduce code:
---------------
echo phpversion()."\n";
$array = array(
	'1' => 'one',
	'2' => 'two',
	'3' => 'three', // <-comma
);
var_export($array);


Expected result:
----------------
Parse error saying unexpected '(' or something like this.

Actual result:
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4.3.11
array (
  1 => 'one',
  2 => 'two',
  3 => 'three',
)

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 [2005-06-03 13:34 UTC] tony2001@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

"Having a trailing comma after the last defined array entry, while unusual, is a valid syntax."
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array.php
 [2005-06-03 13:34 UTC] phpbug at munaw dot com
In docs it says
 "Having a trailing comma after the last defined array entry, while unusual, is a valid syntax."
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