What is need of Associative Arrays when Indexed arrays is present.
Please Suggest.
Thankx.
Rahul47
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Jump to PostIndexed arrays have the numeric value in the index
$array[0]="XYZ";
$array[1]="25";
$array[2]="United States";
$array[3]="Football";where as
Associative arrays have the text value (key) in the index
$array['Name']="XYZ";
$array['Age']="25";
$array['Country']="United States";
$array['Game']="Football";It depends on person and the logic he want to build where he want to use the array.
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arunmagar
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Indexed arrays have the numeric value in the index
$array[0]="XYZ";
$array[1]="25";
$array[2]="United States";
$array[3]="Football";
where as
Associative arrays have the text value (key) in the index
$array['Name']="XYZ";
$array['Age']="25";
$array['Country']="United States";
$array['Game']="Football";
It depends on person and the logic he want to build where he want to use the array.
Suppoese using above array example I am storing a person's information. Which one is most specfic developers point of view?
I think associatve array which tells the meta information that which information is stored in that.
Rahul47
@arunmagar: I see your point.
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