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How to split hash key and value without using "foreach&

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:31 pm
by henka
I just can't see the obvious here, so forgive the question if it seems silly.

Given the following:

$array['keyval'] = "some data";

Is there a shorter way of coding this expression:

$val = $array['keyval'] ? $array['keyval'] : 'keyval';

The above may seem quite short already, but my code uses some rather long 'keyval' strings, eg:

$val = $array['this is a rather long string...'] ? $array['this is a rather long string...'] : 'this is a rather long string...';

In other words, without using "foreach ($array as $key => $val)", I want to get at the $key string of a hash.

Any ideas?

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:39 pm
by feyd
create a function/method.

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:41 pm
by sweatje
off the top of my head:

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function fromArray($key, $array) { return (array_key_exists($key,$array) ? $array[$key] : $key; }
$val = fromArray('this is a really long key...',$array);