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Request #50304 A suggestion about arrays
Submitted: 2009-11-26 00:57 UTC Modified: 2009-11-26 10:16 UTC
From: pgreviews at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5.3.1 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-11-26 00:57 UTC] pgreviews at gmail dot com
Description:
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Hey,

I have a feature suggestion that would be used with array.
You'd simply set your array variable, use a new function (called, say, arygrb, for arraygrab?) and it would echo a part of the array, where you tell it to start and end, that can go across the commas and such.
Something like:
<?php
$array = array("first,"second","third","fourth","fifth");
echo arygrb($array("first","third")<br />);
?>
Which would echo:
first<br />second<br />third
everything up from 'first' to 'third', replacing the "," with <br />

Of course, you could just echo "$array[0] $array[1] $array[2]" but what if it's user input that's in the array?  What if you don't know what is in the array, and you're searching it?

I think this would be handy.  Hope you think so too :)

-PG

Reproduce code:
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From manual page: faq
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<?php
$array = array("first,"second","third","fourth","fifth");
echo $array;  //Would echo "Array", not good, unless you put $array[1]...
echo arygrb($array("first","third")<br />); //Would echo 'first<br />second<br />third, the <br />s actually being line breaks
?>


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 [2009-11-26 10:16 UTC] jani@php.net
FYI: http://php.net/implode

We're not gonna add another function just for this.
 [2009-11-26 10:16 UTC] jani@php.net
And http://php.net/array_slice :)
 
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