PHP: Is there an elegant way to foreach through multiple items (groups) at a time?
- by acheong87
Given an array of N items:
$arr = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f');
What's the most elegant way to loop through in groups of M items (assuming N is divisible by M)?
I tried
foreach (array_chunk($arr, 2) as list($first, $second)) {
// do stuff with $first and $second
}
but this resulted in a syntax error.
In other words, I want to emulate what in Tcl would look like this:
set arr [a b c d e f]
foreach {first second} $arr {
// do stuff with $first and $second
}
For now I've resorted to the obvious measure:
foreach (array_chunk($arr, 2) as $group) {
$first = $group[0];
$second = $group[1];
// do stuff with $first and $second
}
But I'm hoping someone has a more elegant method...
