On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Matthew Setter <matt...@maltblue.com> wrote:
> I want to propose a new PHP array method, called has_numeric_keys (or
> something similar/better), that would have the following method signature:
>
> bool has_numeric_keys(array $array)
>
> The reason for it is to check if the array passed to it only had numeric
> keys.
>
> Why this method, when you could do it in userland PHP? Answer? Convenience.
> I found, recently, that I had to perform this kind of check, when patching
> Zend\Db\Sql\Insert.php. The approach I took was this:
>
> return array_keys($arr) !== range(0, count($arr) - 1);
>
> Not sure of my approach, I took to Twitter and received the following
> suggestions, amongst others:
>
> function isArrNum($arr) {
> foreach($arr as $i =>$v){
> if (!is_int($i)) {
> return false;
> }
> }
> return true;
> }
>
> count(array_filter(array_keys($array), 'is_string')) > 0
>
> array_filter([...], 'is_int', ARRAY_FILTER_USE_KEY)
>
> This convinced me that it wasn't just me seeing a valid use case for it,
> and that others have implemented differing solutions when presented with
> the same situation. Given that, I believe a simple, utility, function such
> as this would be of help.
>
> As for who would implement it, that would be me.
>
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>
>
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Usually, checking only numeric keys is not enough. You may also need to
check if those numeric keys are a sequence starting from 0.
At least, that was my case when I was implementing MessagePack protocol.
And I ended up just doing this trivial check: array_values($array) ===
$array.
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Thank you and best regards,
Eugene Leonovich
