RE: [PHP] Confusing array question ...

Try adding curly braces around the var name, like this: for($i=0; $i<count(${"beginning" . $value . "end"}); $i++) { also, a look at the variable variables manual page will help further HTH Martin -----Original Message----- From: John Kelly [mailto:johnkelly@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:27 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Confusing array question ... Hi, I have 1 primary array called $item containing 20 values each of whose value is part of the name of 20 other arrays containing various number of values. How can I cycle through the primary $item array using a foreach and within that do a for on each of the 20 secondary arrays dynamically inserting each of the 20 secondary array names based on the value of the current primary $item array. Something like the following which obviously does not work. <?php foreach($item as $value) { // do some stuff for($i=0; $i<count($"beginning_of_array_name_always_the_same" . $value . "end_of_array_name_always_the_same"); $i++) { // do some stuff } } ?> I am trying to avoid doing something like the following ... <?php foreach($item as $value) { // do some stuff if($value == 'red'){ $array = $temp_red_file; } elseif ($value == 'green'){ $array = $temp_green_file; // and so on for all 20 possibilities } for($i=0; $i<count($array); $i++) { // do some stuff } } ?> Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php