RE: [PHP] Referencing Multi Dimensional Arrays

lol, perhaps embedded a bit too deep in my pre-amble. My question is simply what's a good way to reference a given array entry when you don't know where it is or how deep the array is. I can do a multi dimensional array search and return an array of keys to locate the item, I then want to use that array of keys to be able to reference the data to perhaps do work on it ie: The array is a collection of network data that can consist of address allocation entries or other networks which can contain either more networks or allocations. I call my search function to locate a particular network which returns me an array of keys to locate that entry. I then want to pass that to another function to actually work on the data. I have a search function: $search_result = multi_array_search($net_array,"needle"); now search_result equals an array of keys to locate the needle, this is variable in count. Sometimes the array of keys is 3 entries other times 5, I want a way of taking those entries and being able to do something like: $net_array[multi-dimensional-key] = value; where sometimes it might be in longhand: $net_array["net1"]["net2"]["address1"] or other times: $net_array["net1"]["address1"] but you don't know how deep you're going until the search returns you the keys. Hope that clears things a bit! Kind regards Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@gremlins.biz] Sent: 01 December 2004 17:23 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Referencing Multi Dimensional Arrays Sorry if I missed it, what was the question? ________________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the CitC Virus Scanning Service powered by SkyLabs. For further information visit http://www.citc.it ___