Re: while loop: detect next loop?

On Thursday 28 March 2002 05:20, Erik Price wrote: > On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 04:11 PM, Matt Friedman wrote: > > When you have all your items in an array use implode to add a character > > in between every item. > > > > $str = implode($yourArray, $separator); > > > > This will add the separator to the end of each string except the last > > one. > > I like that idea, but I don't think it would work in this case -- for > one thing, the array is a pointer to a mysql_fetch_assoc() result, so I > am not sure how to implode that (not saying it can't be done), and for > another, I would have to explode the array again and would lose the > separator. > > Unless... unless I were to implode with say, a bogus separator AND a > 'real' separator, and then explode using only the bogus separator > (leaving the 'real' separator hanging onto the end of each element). > > This seems like it could work, but in a complex array like a > mysql_fetch_assoc() result, I'm not sure how to implode. All this imploding and exploding would probably eat lots of memory and CPU time if you have a large amount of data. What I do is just remove the extra bits after the while loop has finished. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner */