On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jeff Lewis wrote: > What I need to do, however, is append a variable portion to a constant prefix. So I >have a set of variables that are named $MYdog, $MYcat etc. and I need to do > > $a = "dog" > ${"MY$a"} being the same as $MYdog > > Can this be done, and if so - how? I can't get it to work.
So what you want is a base name with a vaiably-changing portion concatenated? Gotcha! // you variable base name $myVarBase = "MY"; $a = cat; $something1 = "This Var Likes Cats"; $b = dog; $something2 = "This Var Likes Dogs"; $myVarName1 = $myVarBase . $a; $myVarName2 = $myVarBase . $b; // The same as $Mycat = "This Var Likes Cats"; ${$myVarName1} = $something1; // The same as $Mydog = "This Var Likes Dogs"; ${$myVarName2} = $something2; g.luck ~Chris /"\ \ / September 11, 2001 X We Are All New Yorkers / \ rm -rf /bin/laden -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]