I can't find anywhere how to make an array with the keys and the character length of that key.
Example:
<?php
$array = array("ab" => 145, "bassfasdf" => 13, "cdfsa" => 2684);
print_r($array);
?>
I would like it to output this:
Array
(
[ab] => 2
[bassfasdf] => 9
[cdfsa] => 5
)
Does anyone have any idea on how to do that?
$array = array("ab" => 145, "bassfasdf" => 13, "cdfsa" => 2684);
foreach ($array as $key => &$value) {
$value = strlen($key);
}
Might be a shorter way:
$result = array_combine($keys=array_keys($array), array_map('strlen', $keys));
You could use an array_map
function, or a foreach loop as shown below:
$array = array("ab" => 145, "bassfasdf" => 13, "cdfsa" => 2684);
$keyLengths = array();
foreach ($array as $key=>$value)
{
$keyLengths[$key] = strlen($key);
}