Re: [PHP4BETA] no reverse fetch of arrays is BAD!

At 12:18 PM +0500 2000-02-23, Faisal Nasim wrote:

: : But, there is a major diff b/w perl and php: : : : : perl: $x[10] = "test"; // size of @x is 11 : : perl: $x[10] = "test"; // size of $x is 1 : : : : Which creates a new question: : : : : Is there a way to detect the upper bound of an array? : : And the lower bound too, of course... key ( $x ) returned the lower bound..... The definition for key(): key -- Fetch a key from an **associative** array Which caused me to skip it while checking the array functions! Can anybody change/fix that?

You might be better off just understanding that all arrays in PHP are associative. Or do you have a counter-example? -- Paul DuBois, paul@snake.net