I tried that earlier, but the problem is: count( $chance ) - 1 ); returns an integer, so I would be asking for something like $chance[1] or $chance[0], neither of which exist in the array. Keep in mind $chance only has keys with string names: The array looks like this: $chance = array("lowercase" => 27, "uppercase" => 62, "integer" => 46); The values assigned to each key are randomly generated. Regards, Carlton Whitehead ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Boget" <chris.boget@xxxxxxxx> To: "Carlton Whitehead" <carlton.whitehead@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:43:00 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: RE: Array difficulty > At this point, $result would be equal to "uppercase". I feel > like this is a really kludgey way to accomplish this. Is there > a better way? Couldn't you just do arsort($chance); $lastItem = chance[( count( $chance ) - 1 )]; ? Why iterate through the array when all you need is the last value? thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php