Posted by Steve on 08/24/07 04:05

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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| Steve wrote:
| > "Kyote" <kyote_love@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
| > news:96csc3tplg3md00t969hu45f74dt6bb80u@4ax.com...
| > |
| > | >$books = array();
| > | >foreach ($files as $value) {
| > | > $c = substr($value,0,1);
| > | > if (!is_array($books[$c]))
| > | > $books[$c] = array();
| > | > $books[$c][] = $value;
| > | >}
| > |
| > | Thank you very much Jerry. This seems to work exactly as I need.
| >
| > jerry's got it...but just a tid-bit of fun...
| >
| > a string is an array of characters. so, $c could easily be set by:
| >
| > $c = $value[0];
| >
| >
|
| That's true - just trying to keep it close to what he had. Didn't want
| to cornfuse him too much :-)

i know...it's one of those 'i never knew that' things. since you covered the
answer just fine, i thought i'd give the 'one to grow on'. after i posted
that, i was overjoyed to see rik had actually done the same thing in his
example.

hey, bet you two bits the op is processing flat files and the first
character of each line is the record type. ;^)

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