On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:58:20AM +1000, Chris Aitken produced this golden nugget:
> Hi
>
> Just a quick puzzle I cant seem to get around at the moment...
>
> Im trying to create a loop that increments the string name by a digit. For
> example, if I had the following 4 strings submitted to a script.....
>
> $name1
> $name2
> $name3
> $name4
>
> What I want to do is create a while loop that will print out the above 4
> strings, incrementing the number part of string automatically.
>
> while($count<4) {
> $count=$count+1;
> echo"$increased_string_name\n";
> }
>
> But I just cant seem to work out how to increment the string name to
> display it.
>
> Any assistance on this would be great. I have a feeling that there is a
> better method of attacking this but im only new to PHP and dont know it yet.
>
There is a better way...
Use an array:
$name[0] //your $name1
$name[1] // your $name2
etc.
and then do
while($count<4)
{
$count=$count+1;
echo $name[$count];
}
and there you go...
that should work just like your code would've in theory...
--
andreas landmark / noXtension
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