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<?php function get_refcount($v) { ob_start(); debug_zval_dump($v); $m = null; preg_match('@refcount\(\d+\)@', ob_get_clean(), $m); return $m[0]; } function func(&$data) { foreach ($data as $key => $value) { if (is_array($value)) { func($data[$key]); } } } $data = [ ['k' => [0]], ['k' => [1]], ]; echo get_refcount($data[1]['k'])."\n"; //refcount(2) func($data); echo get_refcount($data[1]['k'])."\n"; //refcount(3) array_replace_recursive($data[0], $data[1]); echo json_encode($data);

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