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[Jim Musil]

I don't think so. I think this would allow the name of a variable to be
dynamic.

eg:

$foo = "bar";
$bar = "This is the value of my variable";

...

echo $$foo;

... will output "This is the value of my variable"



Jim Musil
<jim at nettmedia.com>
Nettmedia, Senior Developer
345 Seventh Ave., 24th Floor.
New York, NY 10001
Tel. 212.629.0004 x 131


On 1/31/03 12:41 PM, "Brian" <brian at preston-campbell.com> wrote:

> I have never used it, so I may be wrong, but I think what you need is
> 
> $$variable
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> On Friday 31 January 2003 12:37 pm, Jim Musil wrote:
>> It seems like it would be helpful if there were a way to grab the name
>> assigned to a variable and output it. Is there already a function like
>> this?
>> 
>> I would use this mainly for tracing and reporting. So, if I had a simple
>> function show_variable($var), it would not only output the value assigned
>> to the variable, but would also show the name of the variable itself.
>> 
>> Am I missing it?
>> 
>> 
>> Jim Musil
>> <jim at nettmedia.com>
>> Nettmedia, Senior Developer
>> 345 Seventh Ave., 24th Floor.
>> New York, NY 10001
>> Tel. 212.629.0004 x 131
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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