Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54968&edit=1
ID: 54968 User updated by: jens at freude-now dot de Reported by: jens at freude-now dot de Summary: arsort Status: Bogus Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Arrays related Operating System: OS X 10.6 PHP Version: 5.3.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: mmh, imagine we, you and me, want to sort the coins in our pocket. But we don't have any coins. Can you sort it? I can't. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-01 09:53:23] ras...@php.net Sorting 0 elements is not a failure case. It is perfectly valid for an array to have no elements and for this case to not cause a problem in the code. Otherwise you would always have to check the number of elements in the array before trying to sort it if you want to avoid errors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-01 09:24:17] jens at freude-now dot de Description: ------------ --- >From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.arsort#Rückgabewerte --- I expected if I want to sort an empty array that the functions gives back a false because there is nothing to sort. But the functions gives back a true. Test script: --------------- $t = array(); echo '<pre>count($t) ::'; print_r( count($t)); echo '</pre>'; if(arsort($t)) { echo '<pre>$t ::'; print_r( $t); echo '</pre>'; } Expected result: ---------------- false Actual result: -------------- true ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54968&edit=1
