Need opposite of array()

[comp.lang.php]

Hi. Relative php newbie but longtime coder in other langs.
Environment: PHP4.

Looking for a language construct or function that gives the opposite of
array(),

example:

function xyz($fmt, $argsarray)
{
// do something with each $argsarray

$result = sprintf( $fmt, un_array( $argsarray ) );

return $result;
}
Need to find something like "un_array" to produce a list of scalars from an
array so can be passed as arg list to sprintf and similar functions. Does
it exist? I've already thought of recursively building $fmt by picking off
first element of $argsarray, but looking for something cleaner and more
efficient.

Thx.

[Gavin Anderegg]

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but implode()
will give you back a delimitated string of all the elements of the
array. Check it out here: [ http://php.net/implode ].

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <UQ_sd.881$sp.7 60@trndny08> from
comp.lang.php contained the following:

Hi. Relative php newbie but longtime coder in other langs.
Environment: PHP4.

Looking for a language construct or function that gives the opposite of
array(),

foreach?
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[Andy Hassall]

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:24:36 GMT, "comp.lang. php" <re************ @nodomain.tld>
wrote:

Hi. Relative php newbie but longtime coder in other langs.
Environment: PHP4.

Looking for a language construct or function that gives the opposite of
array(),

example:

function xyz($fmt, $argsarray)
{
// do something with each $argsarray

$result = sprintf( $fmt, un_array( $argsarray ) );

return $result;
}
Need to find something like "un_array" to produce a list of scalars from an
array so can be passed as arg list to sprintf and similar functions. Does
it exist? I've already thought of recursively building $fmt by picking off
first element of $argsarray, but looking for something cleaner and more
efficient.

Untested:

function xyz($fmt, $argsarray)
{
array_unshift($ argsarray, $fmt);
$result = call_user_func_ array('sprintf' , $argsarray);
return $result;
}

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[Mark]

comp.lang.php wrote:

Need to find something like "un_array" to produce a list of scalars from
an
array so can be passed as arg list to sprintf and similar functions. Does
it exist? I've already thought of recursively building $fmt by picking
off first element of $argsarray, but looking for something cleaner and
more efficient.

Sorry, don't think this quite exists as you want it. You're asking to
take a semantic feature (arrays storing multiple values) and convert it to
a syntactic feature (multiple magically named variables separated by
commas).

There is the extract() function, which is close, but still not quite what
you're asking for.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.extract.php

what you want is:

vsprint, or vprintf

both of which take the list of arguments as arrays, not a variable list.

good ruck!
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