I agree,
That way we don't duplicate code, and we don't have different behavior..
Ill work on this sometime today
-Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrei Zmievski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jason Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "André Langhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP Development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #9337 Updated: make in_array return key, if
searched value was found
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jason Greene wrote:
> > > We can change in_array() to return the the key if it's found, and false
> > > if it's not, but imagine all the scripts it would break..
> > about 1/4th of mine : )
> >
> > Well I think the basic problem is that people are using in_array against its
>intention.
> > It is a Boolean function, and that really shouldn't be changed. We could create
>another
> > function that is more designed for searching? perhaps array_find? I wouldn't mind
>spending time on this if agreed upon.
>
> Could be done. The way I'd do it is have one php_in_array() C function
> that gets parameters passed through from in_array() and array_find() as
> well as a flag indicating whether to just return true/false or the
> actual key.
>
> -Andrei
>
> "The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you
> are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. " -- Sir
> George Jessel
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