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Re: Array key names

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On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:43:54 -0500, richard wrote:

> You Probably just typed it all in without any online testing.

Dipshit, we just had this fucking conversation. Piss off home and leave 
the technical help and advice to people who know what they're talking 
about, there's a good ignoramus.

For the OP, who hopefully has ignored every piece of claptrap richard has 
spoken:

A string style array index can comprise any valid sequence of string 
characters, including escape sequences for things such as tab, newline 
etc. It's a string, it can contain the same as any other string, the fact 
that it's being used as an array index does not change it's basic 
stringiness.

Indeed there's no reason not to do this, apart from it would be a really 
weird thing to do:

<?php

$_POST = array( "monkey" =>"\t\tsomething\t\t" );

$i = <<< EOT
This is my really long string array index.

It has several lines. In here I'm adding some post data:

The post data is the value of the monkey form field: '{$_POST['monkey']}'

That's a very bad example to give, because I'm using unvalidated and 
unverified user input. Jerry will call me out on this, and rightly so.

Meanwhile, here are some other things \n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\nStuff

"and nonsense"

!!!!!!!!!!! <- madness

EOT;

$x = array( $i => "fred" );

var_dump( $x );

?>

Note - if you ever actually use an array key like that in production code 
then you deserve all the future pain and suffering that your code is 
surely going to cause you when it rises up as the toilet dragon of 
unhappiness and bites you very hard on the buttocks.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Array key names John Smith <JohnSmith@example.com> - 2014-02-14 00:40 -0500
  Re: Array key names "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2014-02-14 10:49 +0100
    Re: Array key names richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-02-14 06:43 -0500
      Re: Array key names Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2014-02-14 05:43 -0800
      Re: Array key names "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2014-02-14 18:28 +0100
      Re: Array key names Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 19:05 +0000
  Re: Array key names Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-02-14 15:09 +0100

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