Re: perl developer struggling with some php concepts

Vincent Stoessel writes: > Hello, > I'm forwarding this question to the group from a perl developer > trying to grasp array concepts in php vs perl. > > His statement follows: > > > > Something anamolous in php: finding the highest index of an array is > non-trivial. There should be some method available that tells what > the highest index of an array is. In the first example it should be > two, in the second example it should be 12. > > If anyone finds an answer to this, please share it with the group. > This should be pretty basic. It is: <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); $arr[1] = 'one'; $arr[10] = 'two'; $largest_ind = max(array_keys($arr)); echo "Max ind is $largest_ind<br>\n"; ?> However, as you've probably already noticed, all arrays in PHP are associative; it's just that you can use integer keys as well as strings. So in the above example, array elements between 1 and 10 are still not set. Hope this helps, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+