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Bug #6153 count() function not returning proper value
Submitted: 2000-08-14 15:28 UTC Modified: 2000-08-14 15:36 UTC
From: jdoyon at nrcan dot gc dot ca Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Misbehaving function
PHP Version: 3.0.15 OS: Linux RedHat 6.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2000-08-14 15:28 UTC] jdoyon at nrcan dot gc dot ca
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]]++;
                }
        }
}

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

?>

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