Splitting up a thread
Hey guys,
How do you go about splitting up an array?
For example, say you have this:
<?php
$array = array(
\"apple\",
\"banana\",
\"coconut\",
\"duran\",
\"elephant\",
\"fire\",
\"gauze\"
);
?>and you want to keep to only five (first or last, can't decide yet):
<?php
$array = array(
\"apple\",
\"banana\",
\"coconut\",
\"duran\",
\"elephant\"
);
?>or
<?php
$array = array(
\"coconut\",
\"duran\",
\"elephant\",
\"fire\",
\"gauze\"
);
?>
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 10:04 — 30th March 2004.
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http://nz.php.net/manual/en/function.array-slice.php
Any good?
Renegade posted this at 10:09 — 30th March 2004.
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Not really, it seems to me that the array content still stays, I want it to be gone completely
s0da posted this at 10:35 — 30th March 2004.
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maybe this would be more simpler to answer if we actually knew what you were doing. i don't see how the slice function didn't work. :/
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 10:43 — 30th March 2004.
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_slice() returns a range, but doesn't delete the others. unset($arr[$key]) should remove the element, I think.
s0da posted this at 11:09 — 30th March 2004.
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yeah but he'd have to go in and do unset() for all the keys he doesn't want. it would be better if we knew what he was actually going to do with the array.
s0da posted this at 23:24 — 30th March 2004.
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<?php
$crazy = array(
\"apple\",
\"banana\",
\"coconut\",
\"duran\",
\"elephant\",
\"fire\",
\"gauze\"
);
for ($i = 0; $i < count($crazy); $i++)
{
if ($i > 4) unset($crazy[$i]);
}
# eh? that takes care of the first 5 you want
?>
not sure if this works
haha
Chroder posted this at 01:51 — 31st March 2004.
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array_slice returns the array, so you could just overwrite the old one with the new one
<?php
$crazy = array(
\"apple\",
\"banana\",
\"coconut\",
\"duran\",
\"elephant\",
\"fire\",
\"gauze\"
);
$crazy = array_slice($crazy, 2);
?>
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Renegade posted this at 05:06 — 31st March 2004.
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Ah, Chroder, nice, I'll try that sometime.
Thanks for the input guys
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