note 11764 added to array_slice

It's a pity you can't do something like this: $input = array ("a"=>"a string", "b"=>"b string", "c"=>"c string", "d"=>"d string", "e"=>"e string"); $get=array("a","e"); $out=array_slice($input,$get); //to give you $out=array("a"=>"a string","e"=>"e string") like you can with hash slices in perl.. of course you could use preg_grep or a work around like: function slice($arr,$keys) { foreach ($keys as $k) {$tmp[$k]=$arr[k];} return($tmp); } but that's bound to be slower.. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-slice.php