Re: [PHP4BETA] suggestion for new function str_change(string

On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Christian Schneider wrote: > I'd love to have an array version, i.e. create an array with all the collisions. > This gives you the number, the first come win and the overwrite in one go. Is > not as efficient as having the three separate versions but e.g. for creating an > inverted index it's very handy. Depending on the implementation it shouldn't be > that much slower to add to an array than to overwrite, no? > Hmm... there's even a yet more evil situation: > $a['foo'] = array(42, 64); > $a['bar'] = array(17, 42); > => > $a[17] = 'bar'; (or array('bar')? Hmm....) > $a[42] = array('foo', 'bar'); > $a[64] = 'foo'; > > I think I've done too much work with full text retrieval where you need exactly > this inversion :-) I propose to call this function array_transpose() instead of array_flip(). -Andrei * Anything will fit if you push hard enough *