what does mixed mean?

Anon

mixed next (array array)

I know that next is a function and it is applied to an array.

But what does mixed mean?

While you are reading this, How can I set the pointer in an array. I don't want to have to loop a next commant 200 times.

I want an each() to start at 200, no 0.

Anon

mixed means arrays in PHP can be mixed variable types. The following is valid:

$o = new MyObject;

$a = array(
"e1" => 123,
1 => "str",
"2" => $o
);

part 2
Instead of eaching, to a for loop

for ($i = 200; $i < sizeof($var); $i ++) {
$k = key($var[$i]);
$v = $var[$i];
}

Not pretty or even well written, but it demonstrates the point.

Anon

Thanx for help?

I have a huge process and I find it slow.

Will having a while nested 4 times do that.

I'm not talking 4 whiles that loop 100 times each.

My first while is 3, then 20, then 300, then 7

Should I make functions instead? Would that speed up the process.

Anon

I need more details in order to help you with this question

Anon

I'll try to give more info.

I have a loop, it is set-up only to loop 3 times, each time it manipulates Data to pass to another while loop inside this one. That data that is passed to the second while loop is used to determine what group of Doc's I'll be working with. (loops 20 times)

After it has determined what Group of Doc's I'm working with it loads up the first Doc and enter's a 3rd loop. This For Next loop cycles 300 times. It scans each line in the Doc looking for an indicator (pre-defined marker), when it finds this marker the last loop begins it loops through 7 items seeing if it matches. If it does it echo's the info.

I hope that is kind of clear. While I wrote this I was wondering if I should try to combine the 1st and 2nd loops.

I was wondering If calling a function would be faster then doing a loop and would writing to a file speed things up instead of working with a 700 element array? Or should I create a small For Next loop and remove 400 lines I KNOW are of no use.

The For Next loop at the top I talk about I specified only working with 200 to 500. An array of 700, is it too big?

Thanks for the Help

Anon

ok, in this 300 loop, are you looking for a specific string on only one line, or a string embedded in a line? Are you on unix or windows?

If unix, use grep, if windows, use unix.

if you are looking for a specific line, try $myline = in_array($needle, file($file), TRUE)

not sure about the third parm...there's somethign to say 'give me the position in array'.

I've got other thoughts...just email me your source man.

Anon

Unix,

Ummm,

I search each of the 300 lines for a piece of text. I use a if statement if (strstr(.....)) if it doesn't find the text some where on that line, then next.

Here is code- I added comments
For ($ii = 200; $ii < 525; $ii++)
{ $i = $file[$ii];
//if statement is true, the text was found some where in the string.
if (strstr($i, "<b class=txt2>"))
{ //Remove unneeded Tags, I know that this will leave me with desired data.
$parts = strip_tags($i);
//move up 3 lines and break up that data
$parts3 = explode('"',$file[$ii+3]);
//once broken up I know that the data I want will always be 2nd element
//Just realized this next line is pointless.
$position[1] = $parts3[1];
// Declare Variables for new Loop
GLOBAL $CurMatch;$CurMatch= 0;
while ($CurMatch< 7)
{ if (!empty($Match[$CurMatch]))
{if (strstr(trim($position[1]),trim($Match[$CurMatch])))
{echo $parts . "<br>" . $position[1] . "<p>";
}
}
$CurMatch++;
}
}

}