range() help Please

[SeanTevlin]

I have somthing set up basically that goes like
foreach (range(3, 10) as $number) {
echo $number;
}

which prints 45678910

what I want to is check to see if somthing is one of those numbers,
eg.

$a = 4;

if ($a is in $number ) {
echo "its in there";
}

can anyone please help me out, my brain is pretty fried today

thanks a lot

Sean

[rikmoncur]

perhaps

in_array()

is what you're looking for?

[SeanTevlin]

if (in_array($a, $number)) {
echo "yeah";
}
else {
echo "no";
}

like that?

[Weedpacket]

Try it and see.

[rikmoncur]

If you do a var_dump, you'll see that the output is in integers.

foreach(range(3, 10) as $number) { 
var_dump($number);}

outputs:
int(3) int(4) int(5) int(6) int(7) int(8) int(9) int(10)

Doing the 'foreach' has set the array cursor at the end of the array: '10' so trying to find eg '5' doesn't work - it will find the '10' tho.
But I don't know how to reset the array cursor:
reset()
cos the output isn't an array....?? 😕

[rikmoncur]

So why not ditch the foreach and just do it the easy way....

$a = 2; 

$shagadelic = range(3,10);
if (in_array($a, $shagadelic)) { 
echo "yeah baby!"; 
} 
else { 
echo "eek no!"; 
}