On Wed, October 5, 2005 2:12 pm, 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. Hunh? <?php $xml['NEWSFEED']['0']['MESSAGE']['2'] = array('whatever'); var_dump($xml); unset($xml['NEWSFEED']['0']['MESSAGE']['2']); $xml['NEWSFEED']['0']['MESSAGE']['2'] = array('something else'); var_dump($xml); ?> You can reassign data any time you want. I don't understand the problem you're having, personally... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php