a little help?

Hi, if some one could give me a pointer on my problem, it'd be much appreciated. I have a form of the type <select name="1"><option value="2">blah</option><option value="34">blah</option></select> <select name="7"><option value="26">blah</option><option value="8">blah</option></select> <select name="18"><option value="31">blah</option><option value="3">blah</option></select> In my PHP code retreiving the results of this code, I can't receive the values of $1 $7 $18 since they are numbers. I realize that if I rename them blah1, blah7, blah18 I can refer to them no problem. However, I am generating 1, 7, 18 through another variable. For example I have $var which counts up 1 through 18 and I want to be able to go echo "$$var"; and have it print the returned option value as I increment $var though a loop. Is there any way to do this, or can you suggest a better way to attack this problem? Thanks very much for your time. Scott