Re: Creating a varable with a name held in a string
| From: | Ben Edwards | Date: | Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:35:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Creating a varable with a name held in a string | ||
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:08:22 -0500, John Holmes
<holmes072000@charter.net> wrote:
> Randy Johnson wrote:
> > I like to do this:
> >
> > foreach( $row as $key=>$val) {
> >
> > $$key = $row[$key];
> >
> > }
>
> You're just recreating a slower version of extract()...
extract seems like the ticket, but as I will also be wanting to run
eatch var through a varable think I will use the foreach approch.
Thanks everybody.
From the manual
"For each key/value pair it will create a variable in the current symbol table".
What exactly is a simble table?
Ben
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