Re: Re: Fuzzy Array Search

On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Alex Nikitin wrote: > If you don't need the location, you can implode the array and use preg > match, quickly testing it, that gives you about 4.5 times performance > increase, but it wont give you the location, only if a certain value exists > within the array... You can kind of do some really clever math to get your > search parameters from there, which would be feasible on really large data > sets, but if you want location, you will have to iterate at some point... > > (sorry i keep on hitting reply instead of reply to all) > > -- > The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is > doing until it’s too late. ~Seymour Cray > > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote: > >> On 06/07/2011 12:45 PM, Floyd Resler wrote: >>> What would be the easiest way to do a fuzzy array search? Can I do this >> without having to step through the array? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Floyd >>> >> >> I use preg_grep() >> >> -- >> Thanks! >> -Shawn >> http://www.spidean.com >> I actually do need the location since I need to get the resulting match. I went ahead and tried to iterate the array and it was MUCH faster than I expected it to be! Of course, considering the machine I'm running this on is a monster (2.66 GHz 8 cores, 24GB of RAM) it shouldn't have surprised me! Thanks! Floyd