PHP: Operadores de Incremento/Decremento

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Operadores de Incremento/Decremento

O PHP suporta operadores de pré e pós-incremento e decremento no estilo C.

Nota: Os operadores incremento/decremento não afetam valores booleanos. Decrementando valores NULL não há efeito também, mas incrementando resulta em 1.

**Operadores de Incremento/Decremento**
Exemplo	Nome	Efeito
++$a	Pré-incremento	Incrementa $a em um, e então retorna $a.
$a++	Pós-incremento	Retorna $a, e então incrementa $a em um.
--$a	Pré-decremento	Decrementa $a em um, e então retorna $a.
$a--	Pós-decremento	Retorna $a, e então decrementa $a em um.

Aqui está um script de exemplo simples:


<?php
echo "<h3>Pós-incremento</h3>";
$a = 5;
echo "Deve ser 5: " . $a++ . "<br />\n";
echo "Deve ser 6: " . $a . "<br />\n";

echo "<h3>Pré-incremento</h3>";
$a = 5;
echo "Deve ser 6: " . ++$a . "<br />\n";
echo "Deve ser 6: " . $a . "<br />\n";

echo "<h3>Pós-decremento</h3>";
$a = 5;
echo "Deve ser 5: " . $a-- . "<br />\n";
echo "Deve ser 4: " . $a . "<br />\n";

echo "<h3>Pré-decremento</h3>";
$a = 5;
echo "Deve ser 4: " . --$a . "<br />\n";
echo "Deve ser 4: " . $a . "<br />\n";
?>

O PHP segue a convenção Perl quando tratando operações aritmétricas em variavéis caracter em vez da convenção C. Por exemplo, em Perl 'Z'+1 se torna 'AA', enquanto que no C 'Z'+1 se torna '[' ( ord('Z') == 90, ord('[') == 91 ). Note que variáveis caracter podem ser incrementadas mas não decrementadas e somente caracteres plain ASCII (a-z e A-Z) são suportados.

Exemplo #1 Operações aritmétricas em variáveis caractere


<?php
$i = 'W';
for ($n=0; $n<6; $n++) {
  echo ++$i . "\n";
}
?>

O exemplo acima irá imprimir:

X
Y
Z
AA
AB
AC

Incrementar ou decrementar booleanos não há efeito.

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Operadores de Incremento/Decremento

pov at fingerprint dot fr
28-Mar-2008 09:15


In reply to Anonymous :



What is strange is that you didn't get an error : ++$var is an expression and can't therefore not be referenced.

Now, if you suppose an implicit assignment to an invisible variable, your code becomes :



<?php

 $var = 1;

 $plus_plus_var = ++$var;

 change($plus_plus_var);

 echo "var=$var";

?>



Written as such, change clearly acts on $plus_plus_var, not on $var. So PHP5 got right, and it's not a "strange behaviour", it's only a solved bug.



Anyway, it's always a bad idea to pass anything other than a variable as a by-reference parameter...

Anonymous
10-Jan-2008 12:17


Some strange behaviour between PHP 4 and 5.



Code :

<?php

 function change (&$var) {

   $var += 10;

 }



 $var = 1;

 ++$var;

 change($var);

 echo "var=$var";



 $var = 1;

 change(++$var);

 echo "var=$var";

 

?>



Output in PHP4

var=12

var=12



Output in PHP5

var=12

var=2

michal dot kocarek at NO_SPAM dot seznam dot cz
23-Sep-2007 12:04


Speed tip:



Do not use post-incrementation/post-decrementation ($i++, $i--) where you do not work with the result of this expression.

(For novices: Yes, every expression returns an result, also $a = '5' returns result, same as $a && $b. And this consumes more time and resources.)



When writing loops, replace the post-incrementation with pre-incrementation, it is around 3times faster than post-incrementation.



Why? In post-incrementation, PHP needs to copy variable value somewhere, then it increments the value, then returns the value which was stored before the incrementation was done. No matter if you don't expect the return value, PHP is scripting language, not compiled one, so it doesn't optimize use of return values.



<?php

// Good practice for loop:

$array_count = count($array); // Store temporarily instead of calling everytime in loop

for ($i = 0; $i < $max_count; ++$i) { // Use pre-incrementation here, it is faster

   // do something here

}

?>

rowan dot collins at gmail dot com
14-Jun-2007 04:34


As the manual says, decrementing NULL in this way yields NULL, although incrementing it yields 1, as you might expect. Can't quite see why this makes sense, but if you need to work around it, you can use '-= 1' instead:



<?php

$i = null;



--$i;

var_dump($i); // NULL

$i--;

var_dump($i); // NULL



$i-=1;

var_dump($i); // int(-1)

?>



Note that -= returns the value assigned, so treat it like '--$i', not '$i--' if you're testing the value.

Q1712 at online dot ms
21-Apr-2007 03:52


A more detailed explanation of the string incremant is:



First of all it is checked wether the string is a standart representaion of a number wich is true if it equals the regex /^ *[+-]?[0-9]*(\.[0-9]|[0-9]\.)[0-9]*([eE]?[+-]?[0-9]+)?$/

but not the regex /\+\./ (no idea why).

if it does, the type is changed to integer (if it equals /^ *[+-]?[0-9]+$/) or to float and then incremented by one.



An empty string becomes the string "1".



Otherwise if the last character is one of [0-8], [a-y] or [A-Y] it is incremented. If it is Z it puts it back to A, is z to a, if 9 to 0 and trys to do the same with the previouse character.

If a character is reatched that is not in [0-9a-zA-Z], nothing is done anymore (that's why " Z" will increment to " A").

If the begining is reached a new caracter is prepended. "1" "a" or "A" depending on wether the first character was "9", "z" or "Z".



If the last character was not [0-9a-zA-Z] the string isn't chaged.



hope this helps someone

Are Pedersen
01-Mar-2007 12:08


Something to think about:



$a=1; 

$a  +=  $a++   +   ++$a; 

echo $a;



will give you 7.



Why is this?



1. ++$a is first incremented. Now $a is 2.

$a += $a++  +  2

$a is 2



2. $a++ is added to 2 then $a is incremented

$a += 2 + 2

$a is 3



3. now the value of 2 + 2 is added to $a ($a is 3)

$a = $a + 2 + 2



Answer: 3 + 2 + 2 = 7

julien-bernie-laurent at polenord.com
01-Mar-2006 04:55


to thus trying to increment a string and are blocked by the exponential typecast explained in the message below, here is a small function :



function increment($var) {

    $var2 = '_'.$var;

    return substr(++$var2,1);

}

timo at frenay dot net
25-Aug-2004 05:45


JMcCarthy AT CitiStreet DOT com:



As for your March 31 post, at least in PHP version 4.3 this no longer holds for 'D'. Your point is still valid for 'e' or 'E' and worth noting.



Your comment from May 12 is simply not true, although it might be a bug in your specific version of PHP but that would seem very strange.



<?php

    $Align = array('a', 'b', 'c');

    $i = 0;

    echo $Align[$i++]; // Prints 'a', as expected

?>



It might be interesting to know that pre-/postincrement assumes a value of 0 for undefined variables, but pre-/postdecrement does not:



<?php

    echo var_dump(++$foo); // int(1)

    echo var_dump(--$bar); // NULL!

?>

31-Mar-2004 11:19


Note that incrementing strings can give unpredictable results due to type changes.  For example:



<?php



$i = '9C6';

for($n=0; $n<10; $n++)

  echo ++$i . "\n";



?>



Gives you:

 9C7

 9C8

 9C9

 9D0

 10

 11

 12

..etc.



The 'D' (and also 'E') characters are interpreted here as exponents of 10 (i.e., scientific notation) formatted numbers.  Using '9D6' will give 9000001, 9000002, etc.



You might want to use all alphabetical or all numerical, but not mix the two otherwise you may not get what you expect..

chris at free-source dot com
07-Feb-2004 01:11


Interesting performance note:





$i++ seems to be slightly slower than ++$i, when used on a line by itself the 2 have the same purpose.  It's not much, but over 100,000 incements the pre-increment is about .004 seconds faster on average.

mu at despammed dot net
15-Oct-2002 06:11


The exact moment when post-increment and post-decrement happen is _just immediately after the variable is evaluated_ (not "after the line is processed" or something like that)



Example 1:

$i = 2;

echo $i++ + $i;

Result: 5. The first i is evaluated as 2, gets incremented to 3. i is then evaluated as 3 for the second occurance.



Example 2:

$i = 2;

echo $i + $i++;

Result: 4. The first i is 2. Second i is 2 too, gets incremented afterwards.

cleong at letstalk dot com
18-Oct-2001 04:52


Note that the ++ and -- don't convert a boolean to an int. The following code will loop forever.





function a($start_index) {


for($i = $start_index; $i < 10; $i++) echo "\$i = $i\n";


}





a(false);





This behavior is, of course, very different from that in C. Had me pulling out my hair for a while.

fred at surleau dot com
18-Jul-2001 09:02


Other samples :


$l="A";      $l++; -> $l="B"


$l="A0";     $l++; -> $l="A1"


$l="A9";     $l++; -> $l="B0"


$l="Z99";    $l++; -> $l="AA00"


$l="5Z9";    $l++; -> $l="6A0"


$l="9Z9";    $l++; -> $l="10A0"


$l="9z9";    $l++; -> $l="10a0"


$l="J85410"; $l++; -> $l="J85411"


$l="J99999"; $l++; -> $l="K00000"


$l="K00000"; $l++; -> $l="K00001"

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