Getting off topic maybe so I'll keep it short.
> The array pointer can be pretty useful.
True, but unexpected for the perl programmer/novice PHP geek.
> ie. give me the second last element of an array:
This can be done in perl ("standard" arrays) with $array[@array-2]
> Or have it tell you what the index is at the second last element:
> and the index before that one:
Not sure of a way (if any) to do that with perl's associative arrays. Chalk
one up for PHP.
Once I got a handle on the differences between perl and php arrays (perl has
two types; php just has one that works like a combination of both of perl's)
I was OK.
- Darryl
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Department of Computing Services,
University of Saskatchewan
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