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To: Charlie Somerville <charlie@charliesomerville.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Funny array function
From: ircmaxell@gmail.com (Anthony Ferrara)

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Yes, it's fairly trivial to write a function for this. I wrote a pair of
them in about 2 minutes:

http://codepad.viper-7.com/rqVlqL



On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Charlie Somerville <
charlie@charliesomerville.com> wrote:

> 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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