Posted by Kyote on 08/24/07 00:23

I'm rather new to php.

I have an array of filenames named $files. I'm wanting to iterate
through the array and take the first letter of each string in the
array and make a new array with the keys as that first letter, then
assign the filename to the lettered key of the new array. I've tried

foreach ($files as $value){
$books[substr($value,0,1)] = array($value);
}

But I'm not getting quite what I'm trying for. It keeps replacing the
value for each key instead of adding to it like I'm trying for.

$books["A"]

The string assigned to the above keeps being replaced by the new
string that starts with "A". I want it to add the new string that
starts with "A" to the last one added. I'm hoping there's just
something simple I'm overlooking. Can anyone help me?

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Kyote

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