putting strings into an array..

[Anon]

ok i'm trying to get this thing to match strings and then count.. but my problem i'm having is the part when it gets down to the muli array. any help?

for ($i=0;$i<50;$i++) { // loop through list of names
$namestring = $source[$i]; // copy name to temp string
// print("$namestring<br>"); // debugging only
for ($j=0;$j<50;$j++) { // with copied string, look through destination array for matches
if(empty($dest[$j][0])) { // check to see if name in destination is NULL
// print("$namestring<br>"); // used for debugging!
$dest[$j][0] = $namestring; // if so this means the name was not found.. so we add it to the list
$dest[$j][1] = 1; // we set the number of times it appears to 1
break; // we break out of the inner loop;
} else if(!strcmp($namestring,$dest[$j][0])) { // if we find the name in the list
$dest[$j][1]++;
print("$dest[$j][]<br>"); // used for debugging!
break; // we add 1 to its count and break
}
}
}

the problem that i'm having now is the multi dem array.. its not wanting to add strings and count..
thanks!

[Anon]

Something that you might be doing could be done this way...

for($i=0; $i<50; $i++) {
$dest[$source[$i]]++;
}

In theory, this would give you an array with the name as the index and the value as the count. You can then pull a list of the names with...

$name_array = array_keys($dest);

... and you can access the values similar to this...

for($i=0; $i < sizeof($name_array); $i++) {
print $name_array[$i]."-".$dest[$name_array[$i]]."<br>";
}