Martin, Tedd, Robert, Christopher, Thank you all for your advice and examples.
I had not been aware that it was possible to simply add another "$" ahead of the variable, to make a variable of the variable's name.
And especially thank you for expressing an example in terms of a class and method, which is my ultimate intent with this process.
I will also make sure to name my variables with at least one leading alphabet character. Thanks for the warning.
All your time and expert advice is much appreciated. -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php