Accessing element of array returned from function

[DataRater]

PHP 5

 

I want to simply access an element of array returned from a function.

 

Assume I've got a function

 

Function ReturnArray(){

  $Array = array(

                          'A' => 'Fred',

                        'B' => 'George'

                          );

  return($Array);

  }

 

I would like to access it like this

 

$Var = ReturnArray()['A'];

 

But it doesn't work. Any ideas?

 

Stephen

 

 

 

[GingerRobot]

AFAIK, there's no way to do that...just assign the returned value to a variable and then read the index. It would be a bit of a strange thing to do anyhow; if you want to read both indexes then you'd have to do the computation twice...and if you don't want to read both values, why return them?

 

Edit:

Forgot about list(). You could do this:

 

list(,$var) = ReturnArray();

 

My point still stands though -- why repeat the function call?

[salathe]

Function array dereferencing (which is what you're trying to do) is not available in PHP. You'll need to use more normal methods of getting the value that you want, like:

 

$arr = ReturnArray();
$var = $arr['A'];

 

 

P.S. list won't work because of the string indexes.

[DataRater]

The functions returns an array of values and I only ever want one of them. So I have one function instead of many.