Thanks Jason and Christoper for replying, here is the solution I came up
with. It takes into account that there could be multiple instances of what
I'm looking for on the same line - got it working late last night:
while (preg_match ("/<yabb\s+(\w+)>/",$curline,$tags))
$curline = preg_replace("/<yabb\s+$tags[1]>/",${$tags[1]},$curline);
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeff Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Question on variable variables
> 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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