That is what I meant when I said what if you cannot change the input. You replied, "what input?". The input was the array that was specified in the original question.
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 9:51:56 AM UTC-5, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 4/2/2014 9:47 AM, Kevin Burton wrote:
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>> On Monday, March 31, 2014 9:33:44 AM UTC-5, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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>>> On 3/31/2014 9:26 AM, Kevin Burton wrote:
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>>>> On Monday, March 31, 2014 6:35:41 AM UTC-5, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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>>>> >>> A decent idea, but much harder than it needs to be. A simple two
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>>>> >> In order for a 2D array to work you have to change the input array and the input parameters. Right?
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>>>> > Nope. Just make the array itself two dimensional. A lot easier than
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>>>> > all of your code (and a lot fewer changes, also).
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>>>> But what if you can't change the input array?
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>>> What input array? The array is generated in the code, and the indicies
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>>> are coming from the user - probably via either $_GET or $_POST values.
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>>> He is generating this array in his code to hold the values, and needs to
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>>> only index properly into the array to get the result he wants. No
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>>> $rate = $rates[$_POST['animal']][$_POST['color']];
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>> I guess I still don't understand. The input array is:
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>> array("animal" => 0, "color" => 0, "rate" => 5),
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>> array("animal" => 0, "color" => 1, "rate" => 10),
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>> array("animal" => 0, "color" => 2, "rate" => 15),
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>> array("animal" => 1, "color" => 0, "rate" => 20),
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>> array("animal" => 1, "color" => 1, "rate" => 25),
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>> array("animal" => 1, "color" => 2, "rate" => 30),
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>> array("animal" => 2, "color" => 0, "rate" => 35),
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>> array("animal" => 2, "color" => 1, "rate" => 40),
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>> array("animal" => 2, "color" => 2, "rate" => 45),
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>> array("animal" => 3, "color" => 0, "rate" => 50),
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>> array("animal" => 3, "color" => 1, "rate" => 55),
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>> array("animal" => 3, "color" => 2, "rate" => 60)
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>> If $input_animal is 1 then $rates[1] will be array("animal" => 0, "color" => 1, "rate" => 10). If $input_color = 2 then $rates[1][2] will be 10. Right?
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> Yes, but this is not what we are suggesting. Please see the earlier
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