On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Scott Fletcher wrote: > What is the safest way to destroy or take out the > $xml['NEWSFEED']['0']['MESSAGE']['2']..... associative arrays starting with > ['2'] and those arrays inside of the ['2'] array path? > > The unset() would make it not possible to reassign the data to this array > once again, that is what I do not want. Could you not just do: $xml['NEWSFEED']['0']['MESSAGE']['2'] = null; I think that would still keep the array element open, but there would be no data there. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php