David, See what you mean. I guess we need some clarification on the original question?
Thanks -----Original Message----- From: David Otton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:09 PM To: Daryl Meese Cc: PHP General Subject: Re: [PHP] Sorting problem On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:45:27 -0500, you wrote: >ckeck out asort and arsort I'm looking... My understanding was that the original poster wanted to sort an array by "value"|"key" ("sort an array and have the key 'follow' the value") eg 'pear' => 'green', 'orange' => 'orange', 'banana' => 'yellow', 'tangerine' => 'orange', 'apple' => 'green' becomes 'apple' => 'green', 'pear' => 'green', 'orange' => 'orange', 'tangerine' => 'orange', 'banana' => 'yellow' However, asort() produces (here, anyway) : 'apple' => 'green', 'pear' => 'green', 'tangerine' => 'orange', 'orange' => 'orange', 'banana' => 'yellow' It's not explicitly stated in the manual, but it seems that when the values are the same, the order of the keys associated with them is not defined. Even if it happened to produce correct output on one system, I wouldn't trust it in production code. Of course, I could have mis-read the original question... I can see how "have the key 'follow' the value" could be read as "have the key maintain it's association with the value". -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
