Re: [PHP] Array difficulty

Hi Carlton,

Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 2:27:46 PM, you wrote:

I have an array like this:

$chance = array("lowercase" => 27, "uppercase" => 62, "integer" => 46);

The values for each of the keys are randomly generated. I want to
find the key name of the one which has the highest value. Currently, I'm doing this as follows:

arsort($chance);
foreach ($chance as $type => $value)
{
$result = $type;
break;
}

At this point, $result would be equal to "uppercase". I feel like
this is a really kludgey way to accomplish this. Is there a better way?

Not tested it, but max() should work as the first parameter can be an
array:

http://uk3.php.net/max

Cheers,

Rich
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