Re: Array vs Hashes

On Mon, 03 Dec 2001, Daniel Lorch wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know whether this was already discussed before, but .. > > have you ever though about the fact that PHP is not very cleanly > designed when looking at Arrays and Hashes? How can I predict whether > a array/hash is sorted by it's INTEGER indices or it's STRING indices > when using functions such as asort(), ksort() .. I don't know whether > these indices are casted into the other type or not. Maybe, by > accident I write $array['12'] = .. and from then PHP thinks I'm using > string indices (thus casting all indices to string). > > Of couse, I could just try out but that isn't really a proper and > clean language design. Shouldn't it be possible to FORCE either > method? such as > > i_asort(); > str_asort(); > > ok, that's a quite stupid proposal but you get the idea I hope :) Eh, you can. asort($array, SORT_NUMERIC); asort($array, SORT_STRING); -Andrei As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. -Hughes Mearns