I have an array with an arbritary number of values in it that is set by several factor. So in one case the array could have 5 the next time it could have 12. The values are added one at a time. The code I'm doing is running a foreach loop on an array which parses a series files and looks for a certain line, each file can contain the line numerous times or not even contain it at all. The number of files it looks through also changes each time. I'm sure it's just that I'm tired that I can't figure out how to do this as my brain is telling me that there is something simple I'm missing and that's all.

I don't really understand what your question is?
Do you need direction to make this, do you have some code that raise an error at some place ?
And could you try to summarize a bit please?

I you want to add values to an array, simply use

PHP Code:

$ary[]="new value"; 


This will do. If your array have more than 1 dimension though, you will need something like

PHP Code:

$idx=sizeof($ary);
$ary[$idx]['dim1']='value 1';
$ary[$idx]['dim2']='value 2';
//... and so on 


As the sizeof() return the number of elements (starting at 1) and the PHP index starts at 0, sizeof return directly the next available index value.

Thankyou that was what I needed. It was one dimensional, just blanked out on how to do it.