Help with php array loading/retrieval ???

[bobmct]

Fellow PHP'ers;

I'm digging myself a hole on this one so I thought it has come to the
time when I must ask those who know.

I have what should be a simple question for loading, accessing and
retrieving values stored in a simple one-dimensional array.

I am simply trying to determine the occurrence of numbers as they
appear in a file. For example lets assume the lowest allowed value is
(00) and the highest allowed value is (35) and the numbers could occur
from zero to n times over the course of a period of time.

The problem I am having is referencing the array elements as strings
but it appears in reality its being references as a vector/index.

I am creating the array with:

$array_name=arr ay();

then I am incrementing the count with:

$X=the number I've parsed from the file;
$array_name[$X]++;

then at the end I am using a for loop to print it out:

for($X=0;$X<=hi ghest_allowed_v alue;$X++) {
print $X, $array_name[$X];
}

Of course, my field names are different and I think that the
references to the $X in the brackets are being interpreted as numeric
vectors but when I try to convert them to a string and use them it
also fails.

Can someone PLEASE set me straight on the proper technique to
accomplish this? As much as I've used PHP over the years I usually
have no issues with arrays except when I need strict numeric indexing.
Go figure.

Corrections? Suggestions? Advise? Anyone??

Thank you so much.

Signed: Frustrated PHP'er...

[Justin Koivisto]

Re: Help with php array loading/retrieval ???

bobmct wrote:[color=blue]
> Fellow PHP'ers;
>
> I'm digging myself a hole on this one so I thought it has come to the
> time when I must ask those who know.
>
> I have what should be a simple question for loading, accessing and
> retrieving values stored in a simple one-dimensional array.
>
> I am simply trying to determine the occurrence of numbers as they
> appear in a file. For example lets assume the lowest allowed value is
> (00) and the highest allowed value is (35) and the numbers could occur
> from zero to n times over the course of a period of time.
>
> The problem I am having is referencing the array elements as strings
> but it appears in reality its being references as a vector/index.
>
> I am creating the array with:
>
> $array_name=arr ay();
>
> then I am incrementing the count with:
>
> $X=the number I've parsed from the file;
> $array_name[$X]++;
>
> then at the end I am using a for loop to print it out:
>
> for($X=0;$X<=hi ghest_allowed_v alue;$X++) {
> print $X, $array_name[$X];
> }
>
> Of course, my field names are different and I think that the
> references to the $X in the brackets are being interpreted as numeric
> vectors but when I try to convert them to a string and use them it
> also fails.
>
> Can someone PLEASE set me straight on the proper technique to
> accomplish this? As much as I've used PHP over the years I usually
> have no issues with arrays except when I need strict numeric indexing.
> Go figure.
>
> Corrections? Suggestions? Advise? Anyone??
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Signed: Frustrated PHP'er...[/color]

Seems fine to me:

<?php
$read=array(
'00', '20', '14', '00', '29',
'14', '35', '20', '03', '06'
);
$new=array();
foreach($read as $x) $new[$x]++;
print_r($new);
?>

Result:
Array
(
[00] => 2
[20] => 2
[14] => 2
[29] => 1
[35] => 1
[03] => 1
[06] => 1
)

The key here is to be sure that the values in the $read array are
strings when pulled from the file. (Use var_dump() to check it out.)

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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.co m

http://koivi.com