Re: Array difficulty

On 31/07/07, Alister Bulman <abulman@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31/07/07, Carlton Whitehead <carlton.whitehead@cebesius.com> wrote: > >> Couldn't you just do > >> arsort($chance); > >> $lastItem = chance[( count( $chance ) - 1 )]; > > > I tried that earlier, but the problem is: > > count( $chance ) - 1 ); returns an integer, so I would be asking for something like > > $chance[1] or $chance[0], neither of which exist in the array. Keep in mind $chance only has keys > > with string names: > > http://uk3.php.net/current > > $chance = array("lowercase" => 27, "uppercase" => 62, > "integer" => 46); > arsort($chance); max() returns the maximum value of an array. array_search() finds the key for a value So all that's needed to find the key of the maximum value is: $result = array_search(max($chance), $chance); I'd pretty much guarantee it'll be about an order of magnitude faster than any solution that relies on sorting the array. -robin