On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:36:26 +0100, you wrote:

>I want to write a function (as I have written in several other languages) that
>obtains it's arguments dynamically (using func_get_arg()) and then assigns to that
>argument. Think of the way that scanf() works -- that sort of thing.
>
>I have distilled what I want to do in the code below. foo adds 1 to all of it's 
>arguments.
>
>function foo () {
>       $count = func_num_args();
>       for($i = 0; $i <= $count; $i++) {
>               $var = func_get_arg($i);
>               // The following line should do it, but throws a syntax error
>               &$var = $var + 1;
>       }
>}
>
>$a = '1';
>$b = '2';
>$c = '3';
>
>foo($a, $b, $c);
>
>What I am doing is quite different than the above (and more complex), but I will be 
>able
>to achieve what I want if I can get the above to work.

Well.... this would work

function foo () {
        $count = func_num_args();
        for($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
                $var = func_get_arg($i);
                $var = $var + 1;
        echo ($var);
        }
}

But I get the feeling you're trying to modify the elements in-place? Any
particular reason?

If it's because you want to return multiple values from the function,
consider this:

function foo () {
    $args = array();
    for ($i = 0; $i < func_num_args(); $i++) {
                $args[] = func_get_arg($i);
        }

    $args = array_map (create_function ('$a','return($a+1);'), $args);

    return ($args);
}

list ($a, $b, $c) = foo(1, 2, 3);

echo ("$a, $b, $c");


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