Question

How to fill a large array by repeatedly copying the values from a small array in PHP

Answer 1

$smallarray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; 
$largearray = array_fill(0, 30, 0);

$largelen = count($largearray);
$smalllen = count($smallarray);

for ($i = 0; $i < $largelen; $i++) {
    $largearray[$i] = $smallarray[$i % $smalllen];
}

for ($i = 0; $i < $largelen; $i++) {
    echo $largearray[$i] . " ";
}


   
/*
run:
    
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 
    
*/

 

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