Re: ARRAYS

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, King Georgie wrote: > hi! > > Can any 1 tell me what the PHP equivaelnt of this PERL code is??? > These lines of PERL input a files contents into an array, compare each value > in the array to another value, and if they are equal it deletes that array > entry. > How do u do that in PHP?? > > open (DAT,"<$memberinfo/address.txt"); > @database_array = <DAT>; > close(DAT); > > ** foreach $lines(@database_array) { ** > ** chomp($lines); ** $filearray = file("$memberinfo/address.txt"); for ($i = 0; $i < count($filearr); $i++) $arr[$i] = chop($arr[$i]); PHP's chop function is essentially the same as Perl's chomp() function. While PHP does have a foreach control structure, it doesn't work in quite the same way as Perl's. The PHP foreach structure uses a copy of each array element. This is why the following code foreach ($arr as $line) chop($line); wouldn't remove the whitespace from the array elements. Matt