Re: problem with eval()

'fraid these suggestions don't work either. maybe I'm expecting PHP to do too much other than the simple replacement of values in Strings. I accept that if I declare variables $value = 1 and $today = 1 in my 'application' then parse the Src_File it substitutes the values of $value & $today for their numeric value, but I thought I should still be able to evaluate/process the statement, and if there is any result/output, pass this back to the string you've assigned ($new_string) very puzzled & confused, alan > > > > You probably want something along the lines of: > > > > $complete_code = '($value == $today) ? "Hello World" : ""'; > > > > and then > > > > eval("\$new_string = \"$complete_code\";); > > Actually, get rid of the \"'s there. > > -Rasmus >