Yes, PHP have the same functionallity: $var = "array.txt"; $explode = (".", $var); list($name,$ext) = $explode; Then $name = array $ext = txt -- ReynierPM 5to Ing. Informática Maestro de poco, aprendiz de mucho
________________________________ De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Yehuda Katz Enviado el: miércoles, 22 de noviembre de 2006 8:50 pm Para: jQuery Discussion. Asunto: Re: [jQuery] Off topic: which programming language forwebdevelopment Easily with Ruby. "a,b,c,d|d,e,f,g*h,i,j,k|l,m,n,o".split("*") returns an array of the two strings, which can then be further processed. I believe that PHP has similar functionality. -- Yehuda On 11/22/06, Christopher Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree that it's a matter of opinion. But I've gotta say that I *LOVE* being able to treat *any* arbitrary string of text as a list (read: array). Let me give you an example: <cfset TheList = ListRest( CGI.HTTP_REFERRER,"?")> <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#ListLen(TheList,"&")#"> <cfset ThisItem = ListGetAt(TheList,i,"&")> <cfif ListFirst(ThisItem,"=") EQ "numPageID"> <cfset MyNumPageID = ListLast(ThisItem,"=")> </cfif> </cfloop> This code allows me to treat one string of characters (the http_referrer in this case) as three different arrays. I didn't have to create an array out of any of it. The very powerful "List" functions allow me to accomplish this, and CF handles the conversion to arrays eternally. This is *not* to say that I can't create and manipulate arrays directly, and that I *have to* use lists instead of arrays, that's just not true. I can use the ArrayNew() or StructNew() functions to create arrays and structures that I can easily reference and manipulate. Er, you are aware that you can reference strings as arrays in PHP, or if needed convert a string to a real array in one line, right? for ($i=0; $i < strlen($string); ++$i) { print $string[$i] . "\n"; } foreach (explode($string) as $char) { print $char . "\n"; } How do you tell PHP what the list delimiter is? In ColdFusion I can take a list like this: <cfset str = "a,b,c,d|d,e,f,g*h,i,j,k|l,m,n,o"> I can then turn around and get the first element based on the asterisk being the delimiter and then treat the result (a,b,c,d|d,e,f,g) as a new list who's delimiter is the pipe and then end up with last list whose delimiter is the comma. <cfloop index="i" from ="1" to="#ListLen(str, '*')#"> <cfset str2 = ListGetAt(str, i, "*")> <cfloop index="n" from="1" to="#ListLen(str2, '|')#"> <cfset str3 = ListGetAt(str2, n, "*")> <cfloop index="j" from="1" to="#ListLen(str3)#"> <!--- do some stuff with the innermost elements of the list ---> </cfloop> </cfloop> </cfloop> Can you do that in php? Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/ -- Yehuda Katz Web Developer | Wycats Designs (ph) 718.877.1325
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