Re: how?

No, ... Actually,... I want it so generic, like myfile.txt can have like: - Welcome $username Enjoy your staying at: $site_name Mail admin. at $admin_mail for any questions... - so bascially, i don't want to do str_replace or else i could have used the sprintf() and with '%s' instead of str_replace... i even tried the eval() which should work, but it didn't, scroll down to message with Subject: $hello -elias "Jason Stechschulte" <jpstech@unoh.edu> wrote in message news:20010503074102.A29745@unwosrv3.unoh.edu... > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:12:55AM -0700, elias wrote: > > hello. > > i read from a text file a line like: "Key=$value" > > so, i do like: > > $lines = join('', file("myfile.txt")); > > echo $lines; > > // output= Key=$value > > Now how can i replace the values in the $lines variables? > > i want like: > > $value = "test"; > > echo $lines; > > and i want ouput like: Key=test > > any idea? > > May not be the best way, but it works: > <?php > $lines = join('', file("myfile.txt")); > $value = "test"; > $lines = str_replace("\$value", $value, $lines); > echo $lines; > ?> > > -- > Jason Stechschulte > jpstech@unoh.edu > -- > Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and > summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as > "Unix". > -- Larry Wall in <1994Apr6.184419.3687@netlabs.com> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >