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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem iterating through PATH entries with spaces Post 302421575 by jim mcnamara on Friday 14th of May 2010 07:49:38 PM
Old 05-14-2010
Make an array
Code:
declare -a arr
arr=$(echo $PATH | tr -s ':' ' )

Code:
echo $PATH | awk -F: '{ for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' |
while read fname
do 
# something
done

Code:
oldIFS="$IFS"
IFS=':'
for i in $PATH
do
    
    echo $i
done 
IFS="$oldIFS"

 

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PG_FETCH_ALL(3) 														   PG_FETCH_ALL(3)

pg_fetch_all - Fetches all rows from a result as an array

SYNOPSIS
array pg_fetch_all (resource $result) DESCRIPTION
pg_fetch_all(3) returns an array that contains all rows (records) in the result resource. Note This function sets NULL fields to the PHP NULL value. PARAMETERS
o $result - PostgreSQL query result resource, returned by pg_query(3), pg_query_params(3) or pg_execute(3) (among others). RETURN VALUES
An array with all rows in the result. Each row is an array of field values indexed by field name. FALSE is returned if there are no rows in the result, or on any other error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 PostgreSQL fetch all <?php $conn = pg_pconnect("dbname=publisher"); if (!$conn) { echo "An error occurred. "; exit; } $result = pg_query($conn, "SELECT * FROM authors"); if (!$result) { echo "An error occurred. "; exit; } $arr = pg_fetch_all($result); print_r($arr); ?> The above example will output something similar to: Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 1 [name] => Fred ) [1] => Array ( [id] => 2 [name] => Bob ) ) SEE ALSO
pg_fetch_row(3), pg_fetch_array(3), pg_fetch_object(3), pg_fetch_result(3). PHP Documentation Group PG_FETCH_ALL(3)
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