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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Chris Shiflett wrote:

> --- Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg <adam at trachtenberg.com> wrote:
> > 5) SimpleXML now returns iterators instead of arrays, so you should
> >    now be able to cycle through results using foreach regardless of
> >    the number of elements returned. (i.e. even one element works.)
>
> Hey, why don't you give us a nice explanation of what iterators are. :-)

Maybe next week. :)

For now, iterators are ways to loop through results that aren't arrays
(retrieved rows from a database, files in a directory, nodes in an XML
document), in a foreach as if the results were placed in an array.

-adam

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