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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Andrew Yochum wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:21:06PM -0500, csnyder wrote:
> > And if I had to pick a control structure it would be foreach. I mean,
> > does anyone use list() anymore?
>
> Yes.  I frequently use it like this:
>     List($A['Value1'], $A['Value2'], /*Junk*/ ) = Explode($Some_Delimeter, $Some_String);

I used it today when I had to use SimpleXML / XPath to extract an
attribute from a specific part of an XML file:

list($version) = simplexml_load_string($xml)->xpath('/foo[@bar = "baz"]/@version');

The xpath() method returns an array of items, but I know I'm only
interested in the first (and only) one.

-adam

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