[RESOLVED] Search array, read array & unset array

[CRichardson]

I have an array:

$events = array(
"0" => array('id' => '3', 'date' => '2009-05-08', 'title' => 'Test', 'spans' => '3'),
"1" => array('id' => '10', 'date' => '2009-05-23', 'title' => 'Test', 'spans' => '1'),
"2" => array('id' => '44', 'date' => '2009-05-16', 'title' => 'Test', 'spans' => '4'),
"3" => array('id' => '45', 'date' => '2009-05-16', 'title' => 'Test', 'spans' => '4')
);

I would like to "search" the array, for example:

 if($events['date'] == '2009-05-16') 

However I would like to limit the search to 1 item each time. As you can see there are two entries for the above date.

I would then like to display the data, for example:

echo $events['title'];

I would then like to remove the displayed entry, leaving me with:

$events = array(
"0" => array('id' => '3', 'date' => '2009-05-08', 'title' => 'Test', 'spans' => '3'),
"1" => array('id' => '10', 'date' => '2009-05-23', 'title' => 'Test', 'spans' => '1'),
"3" => array('id' => '45', 'date' => '2009-05-16', 'title' => 'Test', 'spans' => '4')
);

Any suggestions?

[coldwerturkey]

$newevents = array();

foreach ($events as $k => $v) {
	if ($v['date'] == '2009-05-16' && !isset($hasbeendelete)) {
		echo $v['title'];
		unset($events[$k]);
		$hasbeendelete = 1;
	} else {
		$newevents[$k] = $v;
	}
}

the above outputs:

Test

Array [COLOR="Silver"]//newevents[/COLOR]
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [id] => 3
            [date] => 2009-05-08
            [title] => Test
            [spans] => 3
        )

[1] => Array
    (
        [id] => 10
        [date] => 2009-05-23
        [title] => Test
        [spans] => 1
    )

[3] => Array
    (
        [id] => 45
        [date] => 2009-05-16
        [title] => Test
        [spans] => 4
    )

)

[CRichardson]

Thank you for your reply.

Is there a way to do it without using a 'foreach' loop?