how do I find the position of the element in the array? based on the value
that is passed? if there a funtion for this or do I manually have to get
this value?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Sterzenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Re: removing an element from an array


> Is there no function to do this? It seems like alot of overhead to do
this
> process, especially if the array is big. comments?
>
Not if you do not create another array, which in my oppinion
is totally unnecessary.

I always did the following after finding the position from
where to strip off the element:

for ($i=$elpos; $i<count($array); $i++) {
    $array[$i] = $array[$i+1];
}
unset($array[count($array)-1]);

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