On 31/07/07, Alister Bulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/07/07, Carlton Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Couldn't you just do > >> arsort($chance); > >> $lastItem = chance[( count( $chance ) - 1 )]; > > > I tried that earlier, but the problem is: > > count( $chance ) - 1 ); returns an integer, so I would be asking for > > something like $chance[1] or $chance[0], neither of which exist in the > > array. Keep in mind $chance only has keys with string names: > > http://uk3.php.net/current > > $chance = array("lowercase" => 27, "uppercase" => 62, "integer" => 46); > arsort($chance);
max() returns the maximum value of an array. array_search() finds the key for a value So all that's needed to find the key of the maximum value is: $result = array_search(max($chance), $chance); I'd pretty much guarantee it'll be about an order of magnitude faster than any solution that relies on sorting the array. -robin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
