[RESOLVED] Using Unserialized Data?

[hwdesign]

I had some serialized data that I unserialized into an array, which looks something like this:

array("1","2","3","a1","a2","a3")

I'd like to be able to match only the values that contain an "a" so that I could do something like:

if($has_an_a) { ... }

and

foreach($value_containing_a) { ...}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[bradgrafelman]

If you're going to be working with the values containing 'a' and you want a separate array containing just those elements, it'd be pretty easy to do:

$subset = array();

foreach($array as $val)
    if(strpos($val, 'a') !== FALSE)
        $subset[] = $val;

$subset would then be a subset of your original array $array consisting of only the values containing 'a'.

[hwdesign]

This helped a lot! Thanks!