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Bug #67608 PHP Bug when reusing variables by references
Submitted: 2014-07-11 15:21 UTC Modified: 2014-07-11 17:00 UTC
From: rafavega at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.5.14 OS: Debian, MacOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-07-11 15:21 UTC] rafavega at gmail dot com
Description:
------------
What this code should do, is to take the $lines array and delete the 2B value, but it doesn’t work like that, and is because it get crash when you use the $items variable in the second foreach and you already used it as a referece variable, even if you clean the $items variable with an empty array as you see in the code.

Just if you change the name or the $items variable in the second foreach it works fine.

Test script:
---------------
$lines = array(
	'1' => array(
		'1A'
	),
	'2' => array(
		'2A',
		'2B',
		'2C'
	)
);

foreach($lines as &$items){
	foreach($items as $key => $value){
		if($value=='2B') unset($items[$key]);
	}
}

$items = array();
foreach($lines as $key => $items){
	print_r($items);
}

Expected result:
----------------
array(
		'1A'
)
array(
		'2A',
		'2C'
	)


Actual result:
--------------
array(
		'1A'
)
array(
		'1A'
)

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add-fronk-support (last revision 2014-07-11 15:23 UTC by rafavega at gmail dot com)

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 [2014-07-11 17:00 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2014-07-11 17:00 UTC] aharvey@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

This is unfortunate, but documented and expected behaviour.
 
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