The problematic things that strike me are:

  1. It looks like you aren't using strict
  2. Ditto for warnings I bet
  3. Reusing $foo
  4. Using a foreach with a counter, which indicates this ought to be normal for loop
  5. Setting your counter to -1 and then incrementing the counter as the first thing in the loop, effectively starting at zero.
  6. If you know the indexes at which the letters exist that you want, why not simply copy those into a new array?
  7. How do you determine what you want to spell with the letters pulled from the array? How is this supposed to know how to arrange the letters?

What are you actually trying to accomplish FireBird34?

In reply to Re: Simple array sorting by djantzen
in thread Simple array sorting by FireBird34

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