It seems to me that the use of a temp variable may be the clearest
solution, and I doubt any overhead would matter really.
$a = "dog";
$tmp = "MY".$a; //$tmp = "MYdog";
So the following two would be the same:
$$tmp = "Spot";
$MYdog = "Spot";
Good Luck,
Jason Garber
IonZoft.com
At 09:47 PM 11/16/2001 -0500, Jeff Lewis wrote:
>I've a question regarding variable variable I was hoping someone could
>help me with:
>
>All the examples in the manual have the entire variable name being
>variable e.g.
>$a = "hello" and
>$$a being the same as $hello
>
>What I need to do, however, is append a variable portion to a constant
>prefix. So I have a set of variables that are named $MYdog, $MYcat etc.
>and I need to do
>
>$a = "dog"
>${"MY$a"} being the same as $MYdog
>
>Can this be done, and if so - how? I can't get it to work.
>
>Jeff
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