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[simon622]

Come on people I need your help,

Right I've got an array, I need to break it into variables, however I dont know how many elements are going to be in the array, every instance will be different; so I can't use list().

I need to the use those variables, made from the array in another loop to calculate averages.

I cant do;

foreach($smallArray as $key=>$value){
	//Do something	
}

because I need the variables elsewhere in the script.

Im nearly crying,

any help appreciated.

[michael]

Arithmetic or Geometric mean? (Which averaging method to do you want?)

 
/*
arithmentic mean courtesty :
[url]http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean[/url]
[url]http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Generalization/means.shtml[/url]

*/

$ignore_me = Array('name', 'id'); /* These are the keys to ignore*/

foreach ($myArray as $mAkey=>$mAval) {
   if (!in_array($ignore_me, $mAkey) {
    $total += $mAval;
    $totalcount++;
   }

}

$amean = $average = $total/$totalcount; /* arithmentic mean */

[simon622]

That was great,

Thanks for your help.