There is, but you want to be using mysql_fetch_assoc() instead which gives you just the keyed indexes in the first place. Or, better yet, use mysqli_ or PDO which offer better security than mysql_ if you're running PHP 5 (which you are, right? <g>) On Sunday 12 August 2007, Dave M G wrote: > PHP General list, > > I've got an associative array that also includes a numerical index. The > numerical index was automatically generated from the mysql_fetch_array > command, so it the values are the duplicates of the associative key names. > > Is there a way to simply strip off the numerical index, leaving only the > associative key names? > > -- > Dave M G -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php