Question

I have an array to which I need to compare data from mysql. Usually I’m doing a straight comparison so I can do an if ($array[$i]===$mysql[$i]), but I do have one instance where I need to match it against a range of numbers (ex. 18-19, 20-24, etc). I looked into preg_match & preg_grep, but they don’t seem to be what I want…

I just need a true/false result from the comparison.

The part of the array I’m trying to match against looks like this:

"age"=>array(
        '18-19'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        '20-24'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        '25-29'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        '30-34'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        '35-39'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        '40-44'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        '45-49'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        '50-54'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        '55-59'=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0)
),"race"=>array(
        "White"=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        "Black"=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        "Hispanic"=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        "Asian"=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        "Pacific Islander"=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        "Multiracial"=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0),
        "Other"=>array('total'=>0,'completed'=>0)
)

Is there a clean way to do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

list($min,$max) = explode('-', $array[$i]);
if ($mysql[$i] >= $min && $mysql[$i] <= $max) ...