'read data'

does php have the equivalent of a 'read... data' type statement? So,

read $a
..
..
..
data 5, 6, 7, -1

would assign to $a the value '5' and then carry out instructions that lie
between the 'read' and 'data' statements, before reading the next piece of
data, that being '6'.

I know the BASIC language has this sort of thing, but cant seem to find the
equivalent for PHP..
thanks

"Jeremy Watts" <jwatts1970@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> does php have the equivalent of a 'read... data' type statement? So,
>
> read $a
> .
> .
> .
> data 5, 6, 7, -1
>
> would assign to $a the value '5' and then carry out instructions that lie
> between the 'read' and 'data' statements, before reading the next piece of
> data, that being '6'.
>
> I know the BASIC language has this sort of thing, but cant seem to find
the
> equivalent for PHP..
> thanks

You'd stick the data in an array and then loop through the array.

Funny story. When I was working as the lab monitor at school, we had one
student (halfway through her first BASIC course) who asked me "Why do we
need files if we have the DATA statement for storing our data?"

- Virgil

*** Jeremy Watts wrote/escribió (Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:27:20 GMT):
> read $a
> data 5, 6, 7, -1
>
> would assign to $a the value '5' and then carry out instructions that lie
> between the 'read' and 'data' statements, before reading the next piece of
> data, that being '6'.
>
> I know the BASIC language has this sort of thing, but cant seem to find the
> equivalent for PHP..

Sorry, I don't know anything about Basic. You want to loop though an array
of numbers, don't you? It'd be something like this:

$data=array(5, 6, 7, -1);
foreach($data as $i){
// Here you do whatever you need with $i
}

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