I have the following array:
$array = ('foo' => 'bar');
How do I echo 'foo' without using foreach or arraykeys?
1 Answer
This is a duplicate question, but you've created the "artificial" construct of not being able to use array_keys for some reason, so I want to hilight the options without array_keys:
Note that many of the comments have you look for it by the value of foo, but I'm assuming you don't / cannot know the values of the array, so these methods do not rely on knowing anything about the array:
There's a few ways without array_keys. Here's just two:
reset( $array );
echo key( $array );
Or using array_flip:
$array = array_flip( $array );
echo reset( $array );
And, there's at least one way using array_keys:
$keys = array_keys( $array );
echo reset( $keys );
There are likely many other approaches.
echo array_search('bar', $array)echo reset(array_keys($array));<- will output the FIRST key of ANY associative array. But, usesarray_keys- why don't you want to use that?array_keys? Is this some sort of school homework or something?print implode('',$array);echo $array['foo'];print array_shift($array);