Posted by Mary Pegg on 03/25/07 20:37

shimmyshack wrote:

> if (isset($c['s']['a5'])) echo htmlentities($c['s']['a1'])."<br>";
> .
> .
> .
> if (isset($c['s']['a5'])) echo htmlentities($c['s']['a5'])."<br>";
> that's alot of work for sake of sticking with what _you_ find more
> readable

So what you're really arguing in favour of is wrapping it up in a
function, which is what I've done. But the question is whether it's
worth creating a for loop to run through a1 to a5 rather than simply
calling each by name.

> all the chages above and more are so simple with Rani's method. If you

No, they're simple if it's wrapped up in a function. Whether or not
a1 to a5 get generated by a for loop I've still got b, c, d, e, f (etc)
to deal with. NB I'm using these as symbols - in reality they are the
field names from a database, so no getting smart and suggesting that I
can generate b to f automagically. OTOH I could stick the field names
in an array and step through the array. This might be worth doing.

> can't take good advice don't ask for it.

I know this is Usenet but you don't *have* to be rude and abrasive.

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