Re: Removeing duplicates inside for/foreach loop.

Niccolo Machiavelli wrote:
> $array = array(
>
> 1 => array("order_number" => "10DA0DDEDAF97DB", "order_payment_first_name"
> => "Mike", "order_payment_last_name" => "Smith"),
>
> 2 => array("order_number" => "10DA0DDEDAF97DB", "order_payment_first_name"
> => "Mike", "order_payment_last_name" => "Smith"),
>
> 3 => array("order_number" => "45Y3453245T23T5", "order_payment_first_name"
> => "Steve", "order_payment_last_name" => "Jobs"),
>
> 4 => array("order_number" => "34RTB345T45T456", "order_payment_first_name"
> => "Frank", "order_payment_last_name" => "Capra"),
>
> 5 => array("order_number" => "567U457645645Y6", "order_payment_first_name"
> => "John", "order_payment_last_name" => "Doe"),
>
> 6 => array("order_number" => "7698234T456M963", "order_payment_first_name"
> => "Bill", "order_payment_last_name" => "Williams"));
>
>
>
> echo('<pre>');
>
> print_r($array);
>
> echo('</pre>');
>
>
>
> My question is I want to remove duplicate order numbers in other words ditch
> *one* of the Mike Smith rows there's a duplicate order number there.
>
> And I need to do it in either a for/foreach loop. Somehow there's got to be
> a simple way to check and only output non duplicate order numbers while I'm
> looping thru the data. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> php.code@tx.rr.com
>
>
foreach ($array as $k => $v) {
$result[$v['order_number']] = $v;
}
//then use $result

-Shawn