Re: Incrementing a String Name
| From: | Meir kriheli | Date: | Mon, 23 Apr 2001 01:45:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Incrementing a String Name | ||
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On Monday 23 April 2001 03:58, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just a quick puzzle I cant seem to get around at the moment...
>
> Im trying to create a loop that increments the string name by a digit. For
> example, if I had the following 4 strings submitted to a script.....
>
> $name1
> $name2
> $name3
> $name4
>
> What I want to do is create a while loop that will print out the above 4
> strings, incrementing the number part of string automatically.
>
> while($count<4) {
> $count=$count+1;
> echo"$increased_string_name\n";
> }
>
> But I just cant seem to work out how to increment the string name to
> display it.
>
> Any assistance on this would be great. I have a feeling that there is a
> better method of attacking this but im only new to PHP and dont know it
> yet.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Chris
while($count<4) {
$count++;
$strname="name$count";
echo $$strname;
}
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Meir Kriheli
There's someone in my head, but it's not me - Pink Floyd