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[nycphp-talk] Quick little question - variable interpolation

Adam Fields fields at surgam.net
Thu Oct 17 15:16:15 EDT 2002


On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:50:55PM -0400, Adam Fields wrote:
> This is one of those really easy questions that's difficult to search
> for because the search terms look like everything else.
> 
> Is there an easy way to do simple variable interpolation on a string?
> 
> For example, if I have:
> 
> $one = '1';
> $two = '= $one';
> 
> Is there a way to get $two to equal '= 1' (or whatever $one happens to
> contain, obviously)?

To clarify, I don't want $two to equal $one. I want $two to equal some
string that has a bunch of other characters and the value of $one. So
if the original $two string was:

'this string = $one and that is it'

I want it to be:

'this string = 1 and that is it'

after processing.

-- 
				- Adam

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Adam Fields, Managing Partner, fields at surgam.net
Surgam, Inc. is a technology consulting firm with strong background in
delivering scalable and robust enterprise web and IT applications.
http://www.adamfields.com



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