thanks, no it's not homework. It's for my website. David
James Keeline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help! following up on advise I got from an earlier question, I've been > struggling with this for hours. I'm trying to generate a simple list > of unique pairs from a list of 4 items for example, I start with > $names = "david,dianne,phillip,phyllis" > > I explode them into an array but I can't figure out how to > generate the unique list of pairs. I don't want relults like > "david david" > > I've tried some recursive stuff but I keep winding up in infinate loops. You are probably trying to over-engineer the problem. Take a look at the example on http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.array-rand.php since it is almost exactly what you are looking for. PHP has a function for nearly everything. Just to be clear, this isn't a homework assignment, right? We get a lot of that at the beginnings or endings of school years in this group. James Keeline [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
