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[Adam Fields]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:01:52PM -0400, Analysis & Solutions wrote:
> Just to make sure everything is clear to Adam:
> 
> Only strings inside double quotes get evaluated.  Strings inside single
> quotes are taken literally.

Yes, I'm fully aware of that. That was not my question.

> So:
> 
>  $one = 1;
>  $two = "this string = $one and that is it";
>  echo $two;
>  [results:  this string = 1 and that is it]
> 
>  $one = 1;
>  $two = 'this string = $one and that is it';
>  echo $two;
>  [results:  this string = $one and that is it]

That is also not my question. I don't want to know how to assign a
string such that variable interpolation happens. I want to know how to
take an existing string and perform variable interpolation on it. I
posted my solution already, but I'm still wondering if there's a
better way.

For completeness sake, here it is again (this does what I want, given
an existing string):

$i = 0;
foreach (explode(' ', $test) as $word) {
  if (substr($word, 0, 1) == '$') {
    $newstring[$i] = eval ("return $word;");
  } else {
    $newstring[$i] = $word;
  }
  $i++;
}
print join(' ', $newstring);

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				- Adam

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