Passing array of fields to select

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Passing array of fields to select - El Forum - 08-08-2011

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In documentation it is told that you can pass only string to ActiveRecord's select method, but looking at code, I see, that it is possible to pass array too. Actually it gets converted to array if it is comma-separated string.

Code:
if (is_string($select))

{

    $select = explode(',', $select);

}

So the question is: is it OK if I pass array to select (will it work in next versions of CodeIgniter)? Or maybe you could add this to documentation?

The reason why I need to pass array (not string) of fields is because the list is generated dynamically and it is easier to manipulate arrays than comma-separated strings.