have you tried /e modifier?
preg_replace("/<yabb\s+$tags[1]>/e",'${$1}', $curline);
it's just a tip.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Question on variable variables
> Thanks Jason and Christoper for replying, here is the solution I came up
> with. It takes into account that there could be multiple instances of what
> I'm looking for on the same line - got it working late last night:
>
> while (preg_match ("/<yabb\s+(\w+)>/",$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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