[thelist] Php array, best way to...

[Ron Dorman]

jsWalter wrote:

>>Look at using the array_slice function.  It will return a 
>>subset of the array contents as it's own array.  you could
>>then use array_merge to append it to your tmpArray.
>>    
>>
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>Interesting idea, but I discounted this because it modified the orginal
>array.
>
>Not my intent.
>
>I wanted to pull a subset out and not touch the orginal.
>
Slice the original into the subs, then merge the subs back into the 
original, then merge them into the temps or leave them as subs, or . . .

Or, maybe, when originally building the array, build each sub of 75 
elements into a temp array and the big array at the same time.

How are you building the array to begin with (it's easy to put the value 
of a variable into two arrays at the same time)? Does it come from a 
query? Form processing?

Do you really need the big array for processing somewhere and the sub 
arrays for processing somewhere else?

How about a nested FOR EACH loop? Or a FOR EACH loop in a WHILE statement?

More information about how the array is built and what it should do 
would help in suggesting the bet way to retrieve sub arrays.

Ron D.