Re: How to construct variable names ?!

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Juergen Hall wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Juergen Hall wrote: > > > > > I have a string array like > > > $fuse > > > and get its values by > > > $fuse[0], $fuse[1], ... and so on > > > > > > how do i generate corresponding > > > variables like > > > $fuse1, $fuse2, ...and so on > > > > > > ??? > > > jyrgen > > > > > > > I've seen all sorts of creative responses to this question (parse_str(), > > eval(), etc.), but I think you're looking for something like the following: > > > > for ($i=0; $i<count($fuse); ++$i) > > { > > ${"fuse".$i}=$fuse[$i]; > > }; > > > > exactly, but i was not sure about the > expression $("$fuse" $i)...If it will be > understood the way we want. > I guess it will only work with eval() > jyrgen > The way that expression works is that it concatenates "fuse" and the contents of $i and then uses that as the name of the variable. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>