Re: Variable wildcards

Yeah, I thought so too, but variable variables doesn't seem to provide for this.... to add a little bit of detail to what I am doing, it is a user list, and I want to have a check box next to each user so that you can select 1 or more users for deletion. Each checkbox will be named User$id ($id of course being the numerical id of the user in the database) I did try doing somehting like $User{ereg ([0-9])} but it doesn't seem to work, or I'm doing it wrong. I guess maybe an easier way is if I could somehow drop all of the selected id's into an array? Then I wouldn't need to worry about needing to determine which variables exist. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Stone" <kevin@helpelf.com> To: "Jason Bell" <jbell@barkingrat.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Variable wildcards > Sounds like what you want is Variable Variables. > http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Bell" <jbell@barkingrat.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:24 PM > Subject: [PHP] Variable wildcards > > > are there wildcard characters for variables? > > Lets say that I have a varable that always starts with $user but then has > the 2 digit user id attached to the end, so it could be $user12 or $user28 > > > is there a way to grab these? sort of like in unix standards, where I could > use user?? or user* ? > > > Thanks! > > > > > >