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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:56:11 +1000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Funny array function
From: charlie@charliesomerville.com (Charlie Somerville)

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I'm struggling to imagine how such a function would be useful considering you can already use [] to index arrays. 

If you have a variable 'depth' you need to drill down to, then writing a function to do that is also fairly trivial. 


On Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 9:50 PM, kuldeep dhaka wrote:

> hello guys,
> this is my first time, if thing mail is at wrong place please forward it
> the right place.
> while coding , i just found a requirement, its little bit funny. if it
> already exists, please be calm and mail me the function name and its usage.
> 
> for accessing arrays we use
> <?php
> echo $array["school"]["class"]["roll_number"]["name"]; // this will print
> the name of the student
> /*
> i was thinking if is their any function that can do the above work like
> */
> echo array_drill($array, array("school","class","roll_number","name"));
> 
> // like wise while assigning values
> array_drill(<array to perform on>, <keys>, <new value>);
> ?>
> i hope you guys would have understood what i mean.
> kuldeep singh dhaka
> kuldeepdhaka9@gmail.com (mailto:kuldeepdhaka9@gmail.com)
> 
> 



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