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>    (PHP 4 )</P
>array_slice&nbsp;--&nbsp;Extract a slice of the array</DIV
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>array <B
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>&#13;     <B
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>array_slice()</B
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     from the array <TT
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>&#13;     Note that <B
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>$input = array ("a", "b", "c", "d", "e");

$output = array_slice ($input, 2);      // returns "c", "d", and "e"
$output = array_slice ($input, 2, -1);  // returns "c", "d"
$output = array_slice ($input, -2, 1);  // returns "d"
$output = array_slice ($input, 0, 3);   // returns "a", "b", and "c"</PRE
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