Re: Name of an array???

Not quite sure what you're getting at here. As you discovered, if you have $Thing = array(5,6,7,8); and you 'echo $Thing;' you get 'Array.' However, in this case, you know the variable name already - $Thing! Are you thinking more along these lines: $ArrayName = 'Thing'; $$ArrayName = array(5,6,7,8); now, echo $ArrayName; ==> Thing echo $$ArrayName; ==> Array echo ${$ArrayName}[0]; ==> 5 See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php for more info. -steve At 1:03 PM -0700 7/9/01, Dallas K. wrote:

I need to echo the NAME of an array to the browser..... when I try this all I get is "Array"..... when I try to : echo $$array_name; I get nothing. How can I get the NAME of an array to the browser? Thanks.

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