Trouble w/ Multi-Dim. Arrays

[Anon]

I need to know how to cycle through a multi dimensional array.

$myarray = array();
for($x=0; $x<count($myarray), ++$x)
{
if ($somevalue == $myarray[$x])
{
$value = something();
}
}

loop stops when it reaches the end of the array.

I need to do something similar with this

$myarray = array(array(array(array())));
for($x=0; $x< ??????? ; ++$x)
{
if ($somevalue == $myarray[0][0][$x][5])
{
$value = something();
}
}

i am only cycling through this one position (the third). how do i get a count of the number of entries in this dimension;

[ianholmes01]

frankly I am baffled - this sort of thing use to mess with our tutors head. More than three and she'd panic :-)

But hopefully what follows may help.

Question 1.

If you are only moving through the one array why use a multidimensioned array?

by fixing 3 elements your are creating a 1 dimensioned array!!!

Question 2.

is it possible to swap the element $x and [5] around?

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a posible solution is to have many arrays. i.e. one for each fourth dimension. after all a four dimension array is just an array that stores many 3 dimension arrays.

i.e. array1[$i][$o][$x] = $myarray[$i][$o][$x][1]
etc.

then you can happly count ($array5[0][0]) for you for loop.

hope some of this helps.

Ian

[Anon]

Try these:

$myarray = array();
function dip ( $thearray ) {
foreach ( $thearray as $theitem ) {
if ( isarray ( $theitem ) ) {
dip ( $theitem ) ;
}
} else {
if ( $somevalue == $theitem ) {
$value = something();
}
}
}

dip ( $myarray ) ;

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$myarray = array(array(array(array())));
for($x=0; $x< count($myarray[0][0]) ; ++$x)
{
if ($somevalue == $myarray[0][0][$x][5])
{
$value = something();
}
}