function call as an array

[Skeleton Man]

Hi all,

I'm after the PHP equivlent to this Perl construct:

print @{[someFunctionCall()]}[0];

In the above example someFunctionCall() would return an array, and we're
printing the first item from the returned array..

How do I do this in PHP ? (without first assigning the output of the
function call to a variable)

Chris

[Jerry Stuckle]

Skeleton Man wrote:

Hi all,

I'm after the PHP equivlent to this Perl construct:

print @{[someFunctionCall()]}[0];

In the above example someFunctionCall() would return an array, and we're
printing the first item from the returned array..

How do I do this in PHP ? (without first assigning the output of the
function call to a variable)

Chris

Chris,

I don't think you can.

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[Steve]

"Jerry Stuckle" <js*******@attglobal.netwrote in message
news:ws******************************@comcast.com. ..
| Skeleton Man wrote:
| Hi all,
| >
| I'm after the PHP equivlent to this Perl construct:
| >
| print @{[someFunctionCall()]}[0];
| >
| In the above example someFunctionCall() would return an array, and we're
| printing the first item from the returned array..
| >
| How do I do this in PHP ? (without first assigning the output of the
| function call to a variable)
| >
| Chris
| >
| >
|
| Chris,
|
| I don't think you can.

currently, you can't in php. you have to return the full array to a variable
and then access the element(s).

[Rami Elomaa]

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Hi all,

I'm after the PHP equivlent to this Perl construct:

print @{[someFunctionCall()]}[0];

In the above example someFunctionCall() would return an array, and we're
printing the first item from the returned array..

How do I do this in PHP ? (without first assigning the output of the
function call to a variable)

If it indeed is the first element, then you can use reset (and for the last
element end) but there is no such functionality for returning the n'th
element.

echo reset(functioncall());

http://fi2.php.net/manual/en/function.reset.php
reset() rewinds array's internal pointer to the first element and returns
the value of the first array element, or FALSE if the array is empty.
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[Toby A Inkster]

Rami Elomaa wrote:

If it indeed is the first element, then you can use reset (and for the last
element end) but there is no such functionality for returning the n'th
element.

echo reset(functioncall());

If you need the nth item, it's fairly easy to write your own function to
do this:

function array_n($array, $n) { return $array[$n]; }

echo array_n(functioncall(), 2);

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[Toby A Inkster]

Skeleton Man wrote:

print @{[someFunctionCall()]}[0];

PS -- this sort of thing is generally unsafe, as you've not checked that
the returned array even *has* an element with index 0. someFunctionCall
might be defined as:

function someFunctionCall ()
{
if (some error condition)
return FALSE;
else
return array(etc, etc, etc);
}

You should really check that someFunctionCall has returned an array, and
that the array has an element 0 before you try to print element 0 out!

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[Skeleton Man]

>You should really check that someFunctionCall has returned an array, and

>that the array has an element 0 before you try to print element 0 out!

I know it will always return an array with at one least element.. but
that's besides the point really..

Chris