Re: Array Question

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:52 +0100, Stut wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:46 +0100, Robin Vickery wrote: > >> On 11/07/07, kvigor <k3cheese@insightbb.com> wrote: > >>> Is there a php function similar to in_array that can detect if a "partial > >>> value" is in an array value or not: > >>> > >>> e.g. > >>> > >>> $var1 = " big horse"; $var2 = " small yellow"; $var3 = > >>> " red hydrant"; > >>> > >>> $theArray = array(big blue horse, small yellow bird, giant red hydrant); > >>> > >>> Is there a way to find out if $var1 in $theArray or $var2 etc.? > >> There's not a built in function, but it's not hard to write one: > >> > >> function partial_in_array($needle, $haystack) { > >> if (!is_array($needle)) { $needle = array($needle); } > > > > You can reduce the above statement to the following: > > > > $needle = (array)$needle; > > > > Conversion to array creates an array with one element... the value > > converted. > > Without raising a notice? Yep. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................