Re: checking for duplicate values among five variables

From: Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:03:26 +0000
Subject: Re: checking for duplicate values among five variables
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On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 21:51 -0500, Kenn Murrah wrote: > Can anyone help me with a way to determine of two or more variables have > the same value? For instance, > > $a1 = 1000 > $a2 = 2000 > $a3 = 2000 > $a4 = 4000 > $a5 = 5000 > > I want check these five variables and determine whether, as in this > case, two or more of the variables have the same value. > > Any suggestions how I can do this? <?php $a1 = 1000; $a2 = 2000; $a3 = 2000; $a4 = 4000; $a5 = 5000; $hits = array(); for( $i = 0; $i < 5; $i++ ) { $hits[${'a'.$i}][] = 'a'.$i; } foreach( $hits as $value => $vars ) { if( count( $vars ) > 1 ) { echo 'Value: '.$value."\n"; print_r( $vars ); } } ?> Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'

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