note 28374 added to ref.array

Frederic Maybaum in newsgroups gave me this solution. If you are coming from perl and want to get the -1, -2, etc of an array, you don't have this convention in PHP, there is no $array[-1]. So here are 2 solutions: $stuff = array('lard','utensil','pig','roasting spit'); to get 'roasting spit' you can do this: print end($stuff) ."\n"; If your looking for something a little more flexible: print $stuff[count($stuff) - 1] ."\n"; // 'roasting spit' print $stuff[count($stuff) - 2] ."\n"; // 'pig' This is handy if you are looking for a quick method to grab a filename from a fully qualified filename variable: $filename = "/usr/local/proggy/bin/goober"; print end(preg_split("|\/|",$filename)) ."\n"; // <-- goober Thanks Frederic! -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+28374 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+28374 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+28374