Re: Array difficulty
| From: | Robin Vickery | Date: | Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:58:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Array difficulty | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On 31/07/07, Carlton Whitehead <carlton.whitehead@cebesius.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an array like this:
>
> $chance = array("lowercase" => 27, "uppercase" => 62,
> "integer" => 46);
>
> The values for each of the keys are randomly generated. I want to find the key name of the one
> which has the highest value. Currently, I'm doing this as follows:
>
> arsort($chance);
> foreach ($chance as $type => $value)
> {
> $result = $type;
> break;
> }
>
Assuming $chance is non-empty.
$result = array_search(max($chance), $chance);