Re: Array Question

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Robert Cummings wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:46 +0100, Robin Vickery wrote:
On 11/07/07, kvigor <k3cheese@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a php function similar to in_array that can detect if a "partial
value" is in an array value or not:

e.g.

$var1 = " big horse";    $var2 = " small yellow";    $var3 = " red hydrant";

$theArray = array(big blue horse, small yellow bird, giant red hydrant);

Is there a way to find out if $var1 in $theArray or $var2 etc.?
There's not a built in function, but it's not hard to write one:

function partial_in_array($needle, $haystack) {
  if (!is_array($needle)) { $needle = array($needle); }

You can reduce the above statement to the following:

    $needle = (array)$needle;

Conversion to array creates an array with one element... the value
converted.

Without raising a notice?

-Stut

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