If you don't need the location, you can implode the array and use preg match, quickly testing it, that gives you about 4.5 times performance increase, but it wont give you the location, only if a certain value exists within the array... You can kind of do some really clever math to get your search parameters from there, which would be feasible on really large data sets, but if you want location, you will have to iterate at some point... (sorry i keep on hitting reply instead of reply to all) -- The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. ~Seymour Cray On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/07/2011 12:45 PM, Floyd Resler wrote: > > What would be the easiest way to do a fuzzy array search? Can I do this > without having to step through the array? > > > > Thanks! > > Floyd > > > > I use preg_grep() > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
