Ok, so empty is faster. I appreciate the time you guys took to bench the thing. But I'm still gonna use array_key_exists. If you like it or not. Using it a couple of times in my scripts will slow them down a few nanoseconds. That's plain evil mwhahaha. //A yeti -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php