Posted by Rik on 04/27/06 17:07

nickdevx@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> Say if I have a mixed array:
>
> $array = array("item1", "2"=>"item2", "5", "item4key"=>"item4")
>
> Is it possible while looping through the array (foreach ($array as
> $key=>$val)) to check if an item has an explicit key specified instead
> of its automatically assigned position key?

It seems like the explicit keys aren't numbers, in that case this will do:

$explicit = (is_numeric($key)) ? false : true;

If your explicit keys can be numbers I don't think it's possible, to my
knowledge PHP doesn''t store information about how an elemtn is added in an
array.

Grtz,

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Rik Wasmus

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