Posted by Erwin Moller on 01/17/07 15:15

JHN wrote:

> Just out of curiosity why would you not want to use something like
>
>
> function giveArr($n){
> array("one","two","three");
> return array[$n];
> }
>
> echo giveArr(1);

No reason.
I don't actually need this right now.
And I can also store it in another var as described, and use an index on
that var.

This is just something I was trying and couldn't do this way, so I thought I
might ask in here.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

>
> Don't know of any other way, but I'm not a pro...
>
> -Johan
>
>
> Erwin Moller wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Consider the following code:
>>
>> -------------------------
>> function giveArr(){
>> return array("one","two","three");
>> }
>>
>> echo giveArr()[1];
>> // I am hoping for "two"
>> -------------------------
>>
>> This syntax clearly doesn't work.
>> Does anybody know if that is possible?
>> If so, what is the right syntax?
>>
>> (Of course I can store the returned array in some variable, and then use
>> an indexing on that variable.)
>>
>> I am curious if the above construct is possible (in another syntax
>> obviously) with PHP.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Regards,
>> Erwin Moller
>>

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