Sphynx01

I've decided to give up on it, spent too much time trying to resolve it already (and it took less than an hour to do it with Classes without having any bugs). But, to answer your questions... Those aren't spaces, those are tabs (I'm getting a tab delimited text from the Progress DB). If you're not seeing Tabs, it's because this forum is converting the strings. The double-talk on $machine is because there's a \n at the end of the line. If you look in the code I posted, you'll see there's an extra line drop after the P12.34AB and before the closing of the array, the closing parenthesis. But nothing of all that changes the fact that $machineSAVs[$sav] = $sav; -should- return Array ( [b123456] => B123456 ) but is instead returning Array ( [0] => B123456 ) I mean, the $sav is $sav for both key and value, it works great in the value slot, but comes up a 0 in the key slot... o.O Even if $sav had all sorts of garble in it, it should work as a key if it's working as a value (after all, you PHP even has a flip function that changes all keys to values and visa versa.... It just makes no sense at all.

No luck. The replace_str won't work because I've already exploded it by tabs. Single quotes don't work because '$result' becomes $result, not the value of the result variable (unless I'm mis-understanding where you are suggesting the single-quotes go). I've tried trim() stripslashes() strip_tags() and a var_dump shows no 'extra' characters in my $result or $sav. this is just bizzare.....

Thanks.... I think the problem may be something other than what I originally thought. The problem seems to be the string, it's like there's a hidden character or something in it. I get this to work just fine by taking the supposed string and exploding it, but when I extract that string from the database (working with a Progress DB) it doesn't work. I -see- the string just fine, the is_string() says it's a string, and when I copy paste the string it works fine.... Ie: $innerData = explode( "\t", $result ); $sav = $innerData[1]; $machine = explode("\n", $innerData[2]); $machine = $machine[0]; $machineSAVs[$sav] = $sav; print_r( $results ); print_r( $innerData ); print_r( $machineSAVs ); actually returns: X B123456 P12.34AB Array ( [0] => 9 [1] => B123456 [2] => P12.34AB ) Array ( [0] => B123456 ) BUT If I change the first line to: $innerData = explode( "\t", "X B123456 P12.34AB" ); It works..... o.O

Is there some setting that prevents you from using a variable as a key to an array? I've got the following code where $sav = "B123456" $machine = "P12.34AB" $machineSAVs = array(); if( ! array_key_exists( $sav, $machineSAVs ) ) $machineSAVs["$sav"] = $machine; Here's what I see when I print_r( $machineSAVs ); Array ( [0] => "P12.34AB" ) I've tried $machineSAVs[$sav], $machineSAVs['$sav'], I've debugged $sav to make sure it was a string, and made double/triple sure that there were no typos. Made sure there were no hidden characters such as carriage returns or anything else in the $sav variable. I'll probably just convert it all to a Class variable anyhows, but sadly, as a programmer, I can't do that until I find out why the heck this doesn't work... Any ideas?