Psudeo Pointer?

[Anon]

Say you have a variable "$variable" that contains the value "value". You have several of these variables that end in a number, such as "$variable1", $variable2", and so on. Say you have a sql query which would be enclosed in a for statment and would insert the data from one of the variables until they have all been added. Now you have a "$counter" variable which holds the number of the variable that you are on. You more or less want the value of $"variable$counter" to be added into a field in the db. How would you be able to get the value from the variable using the variable that contains the number that you are currently on?
Thanks.

[khaine]

Easy just use variable variables.

say you have 5 variables :

$var1="A"
$var2="B"
$var3="C"
$var4="D"
$var5="E"

to display the contents you can use

for ( $loop=1; $loop<=5; $loop++ )
{
$$varname="var".$loop;
echo ${$varname}."<BR>";
}

you should get on screen

A
B
C
D
E

Mark.

[Anon]

sounds like you may need variable variables if the number of original varibles is unknown

[Anon]

Thanks guys, it works great.