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Subject: array position isfirst / islast / valid ?
From: patchnow@gmail.com (Oskar Eisemuth)

Hello

Would it be possible to add functions to know the relative internal array position?

I found "[PHP-DEV] RFC array functions" from 2006, but nothing really changed.

The need to use next, prev in combination is ridiculous compared to a clean array_hasmore or array_pos_islast, as the internals already know this.
To get an array_valid_position or array_pos_isvalid wouldn't be bad either.

So would it possible to introduce:

array_pos_isfirst(&  $array)
array_pos_islast(&  $array)
array_pos_isvalid(&  $array)


Best regards
Oskar Eisemuth