Re: swaping numerical index for keys

function addAssoc($ary_stat) { $ls_statfields = array(.....); while ($assoc = each($ls_statfields)) { $ary_stat[$assoc['key']] = $ary_stat[$assoc['value']]; } return $ary_stat; } This should do what you want. I'm not sure if you want to remove the numeric keys entirely, but after this function they still exist. Matt "Pooly" <pooly7@gmail.com> wrote in message news:8db58d6b0511251326h4fc4ea3fg@mail.gmail.com... Hi, I've an array : $ls_statfields=array( "rfile" =>0, "file" =>1, "dev" =>2, "ino" =>3, "mode" =>4, "nlink" =>5, "uid" =>6, "gid" =>7, "rdev" =>8, "size" =>9, "atime" =>10, "mtime" =>11, "ctime" =>12, "blksize" =>13, "blocks" =>14 ); Which is the correspondance between the numerical and keys for stat before PHP 4.0.6 : http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.stat.php What would be the fastest solution to transform the result from stat to the one with the keys (before 4.0.6 :-) ? (i.e. Exchanging numerical indexing the for hash keys in the ls_statfields ?) -- Pooly Webzine Rock : http://www.w-fenec.org/