RE: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-14 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS] 
-Original Message-
From: Brent Clements
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I wanted to see if anyone has an easier way to do this. The end result
is this: I need to compare 7 different text strings(which are in an
array). They should all be the same, if they are not the same, a message
should be outputted saying they weren't.

How would one do this outside of using a huge if/then statement?

---

Two approaches come to mind off the top of my head:

  $values = array_count_values($array);

  if (count($values)1):
// there's more than one unique value in the array
  endif;

or...

  $value = $array[0];
  for ($i=1; $i7; ++$i):
if ($array[$i]!= $value):
  // this value doesn't match
  break;
endif;
  endfor;

Cheers!

Mike

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Re: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-14 Thread Hannes Magnusson 
if ( count ( array_unique ( $array ) ) == 1 ) {
 // all fields have the same value
}
we could post solution to this problem for ever...
- Hannes

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:24:03 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Ford) wrote:

 -Original Message-
 From: Brent Clements
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 I wanted to see if anyone has an easier way to do this. The end result
 is this: I need to compare 7 different text strings(which are in an
 array). They should all be the same, if they are not the same, a message
 should be outputted saying they weren't.
 
 How would one do this outside of using a huge if/then statement?
 
 ---
 
 Two approaches come to mind off the top of my head:
 
   $values = array_count_values($array);
 
   if (count($values)1):
 // there's more than one unique value in the array
   endif;
 
 or...
 
   $value = $array[0];
   for ($i=1; $i7; ++$i):
 if ($array[$i]!= $value):
   // this value doesn't match
   break;
 endif;
   endfor;
 
 Cheers!
 
 Mike

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Re: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-14 Thread Kim Steinhaug 
* Ed Lazor wrote :
 Nice solution =)

My thoughts exatly, :D

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Re: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-14 Thread Jason Wong 
On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:12, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
 if ( count ( array_unique ( $array ) ) == 1 ) {
  // all fields have the same value
 }
 we could post solution to this problem for ever...

Indeed:

  if (count(array_flip($doo))  1) { // not same }

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Re: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-14 Thread Hannes Magnusson 
if ( count ( array_diff ( $array, array ( $array[0] ) )  0 ) { // not same }

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:24:30 +0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Wong) wrote:

 On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:12, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
  if ( count ( array_unique ( $array ) ) == 1 ) {
   // all fields have the same value
  }
  we could post solution to this problem for ever...
 
 Indeed:
 
   if (count(array_flip($doo))  1) { // not same }
 
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[PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-13 Thread Brent Clements 
I wanted to see if anyone has an easier way to do this. The end result is this: I need 
to compare 7 different text strings(which are in an array). They should all be the 
same, if they are not the same, a message should be outputted saying they weren't.

How would one do this outside of using a huge if/then statement?

Thanks,
Brent

Re: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-13 Thread Brent Clements 
Let me rephase my question in my previous email:

I'd like to compare 7 strings(which are in an array). Each string should be
the same, if they are not, a message should be outputted. How would one do
this outside of using a huge if/then statement?

Thanks,
Brent
- Original Message - 
From: Brent Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:07 PM
Subject: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings


I wanted to see if anyone has an easier way to do this. The end result is
this: I need to compare 7 different text strings(which are in an array).
They should all be the same, if they are not the same, a message should be
outputted saying they weren't.

How would one do this outside of using a huge if/then statement?

Thanks,
Brent

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Re: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-13 Thread Hannes Magnusson 
sort ( $array );
if ( $array[ 0 ] !== $array[ count ( $array )-1 ] ) {
  // Not all fields in the array are the same...
}

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:10:50 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Clements) wrote:

 Let me rephase my question in my previous email:
 
 I'd like to compare 7 strings(which are in an array). Each string should be
 the same, if they are not, a message should be outputted. How would one do
 this outside of using a huge if/then statement?
 
 Thanks,
 Brent
 - Original Message - 
 From: Brent Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:07 PM
 Subject: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings
 
 
 I wanted to see if anyone has an easier way to do this. The end result is
 this: I need to compare 7 different text strings(which are in an array).
 They should all be the same, if they are not the same, a message should be
 outputted saying they weren't.
 
 How would one do this outside of using a huge if/then statement?
 
 Thanks,
 Brent

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RE: [PHP] String compare of 7 text strings

2004-08-13 Thread Ed Lazor 
Nice solution =)

 -Original Message-
 sort ( $array );
 if ( $array[ 0 ] !== $array[ count ( $array )-1 ] ) {
   // Not all fields in the array are the same...
 }

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