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[Michael B Allen]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone explain why the below switch matches the 0 element?
>
> $ cat switch.php
> <?php
>
> $tmp = array(
>        'foo' => 1,
>        'bar' => 2,
>        'zap',
> );
>
> foreach ($tmp as $key => $val) {

Nevermind - $key is an int so 'foo' is being cast to an int which
evaluates to 0.

I think I would prefer that switch be a little more explicit.

>        switch ($key) {
>                case 'foo':
>                case 'bar':
>                        echo "[$key][$val]\n";
>                        break;
>        }
> }
>
> $ php -f switch.php
> [foo][1]
> [bar][2]
> [0][zap]

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Michael B Allen
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