RE: [PHP-WIN] pulling arrays from nested arrays?

Perhaps I was unclear...I actually _want_ to modify the copy, that's why I made a copy, to preserve the original. My point was that this doesn't seem to create a valid copy of the original array: $new_array = $first_array["second array"]; Operations on $new_array seem to fail, because it isn't an array. Using a reference would modify the original, and I don't want to do that. Doug | -----Original Message----- | From: Ernest E Vogelsinger [mailto:ebird@1-at-web.at] | Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 7:17 PM | To: Doug Brewer | Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net | Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] pulling arrays from nested arrays? | | | At 01:21 04.03.2001, Doug Brewer said: | --------------------[snip]-------------------- | >$new_array = $first_array["second array"]; # what's wrong | with this? | | this is a copy of $first_array["second array"]. | | >while(list($this, $that) = each($new_array)) { | > # doesn't work! | >} | | this modifies the copy! | | After applying the modifications, do | $first_array["second array"] = $new_array; | to replace the original with the modified contents. | | Usually you would use references to arrays to handle this, | but I haven't | found a way yet to get list() to return references instead | of copies... | | | ...ebird | | >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger | (\) http://www.1-at-web.at/ | ^ ICQ# 13394035 | | | -- | PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) | To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net | For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net | To contact the list administrators, e-mail: | php-list-admin@lists.php.net |