Selecting a range of Arrays...

[deezzer]

Hi. Thanks for reading.

How does one select a certain range of arrays without having to write them all out? I am wondering, how would one go about the following?

So we have the following indexed arrays:

$array[0] = "A";
$array[1] = "B";
$array[2] = "C";
$array[3] = "D";

i'd like this fantasy if statement to work:

if ($array[range 0-3] != A) print "blah blah blah";
elseif ($array[range 1-2] != A) print" do de do ";

of course me putting the range inside the brakets is an absolute violation and won't work, how would i go about coding this properly?

Thanks

Dominic Son

[drew010]

you could use [man]in_array[/man] if you are will search the entire array, or you could use a for loop and compare the value on each iteration like this

//$myArray contains 100 values, 0-99

$found = FALSE;
for ($i = 0; $i < 25; ++$i) {
  if ($myArray[$i] == 'search') {
    $found = TRUE;
    break;
  }
}
if ($found == TRUE) {
  echo 'found the item...';
} else {
  echo 'item was not found in elements 0-24';
}

and perhaps you could turn that into a function so you could reuse it easily. the prototype might look like
bool rangeSearch(array &$array, string $findMe, int $startOffset, int $endOffset);

[deezzer]

Trying it out now...