Question

I know I could use array_slice() to create a new array of all but the first & last elements, perform operations on each, and then tack the original first and last values back on. That seems like overkill though. Is there a cleaner way to perform an operation (in this case, just appending and prepending strings to the array values) on all interior array elements and not on the ends?

Answer 1

I might be missing something, but wouldn’t this do the trick?

for ($i = 1; $i < count($arr) - 1; $i++) {
   // Do stuff to $arr[$i], like prefixing and suffixing
   $arr[$i] = 'prefix ' . $arr[$i] . ' suffix';
}