Re: Proposal for a new array function

php.internals

Christian Wenz

10 years ago
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 09:32 AM, Matthew Setter wrote:
> The approach I took was this: > > return array_keys($arr) !== range(0, count($arr) - 1);
FWIW, this might not work for arrays with missing indices like [0 => 'a', 2 => 'b'] I personally would appreciate a function like you proposed. --Christian

Rowan Collins

10 years ago
Christian Wenz wrote on 11/02/2016 09:17:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 09:32 AM, Matthew Setter wrote: > >> The approach I took was this: >> >> return array_keys($arr) !== range(0, count($arr) - 1); > > FWIW, this might not work for arrays with missing indices like [0 => > 'a', 2 => 'b'] > > I personally would appreciate a function like you proposed.
This is why the exact specification - and name - of any proposed function needs to be considered carefully. In many cases, what you actually want to verify is "is this a pure list / vector?" in which case you might *want* that array to return false. A naive version of which would be "$arr === array_values($arr)".