Re: Funny array function

From: Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:56:11 +0000
Subject: Re: Funny array function
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I'm struggling to imagine how such a function would be useful considering you can already use [] to index arrays. If you have a variable 'depth' you need to drill down to, then writing a function to do that is also fairly trivial. On Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 9:50 PM, kuldeep dhaka wrote: > hello guys, > this is my first time, if thing mail is at wrong place please forward it > the right place. > while coding , i just found a requirement, its little bit funny. if it > already exists, please be calm and mail me the function name and its usage. > > for accessing arrays we use > <?php > echo $array["school"]["class"]["roll_number"]["name"]; > // this will print > the name of the student > /* > i was thinking if is their any function that can do the above work like > */ > echo array_drill($array, > array("school","class","roll_number","name")); > > // like wise while assigning values > array_drill(<array to perform on>, <keys>, <new value>); > ?> > i hope you guys would have understood what i mean. > kuldeep singh dhaka > kuldeepdhaka9@gmail.com (mailto:kuldeepdhaka9@gmail.com) > >

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