Unknown parse error

[Anon]

Hi,

I've just upgraded from php3 to php 4.2.0 in order to run more advanced apps like phpbb2.

Whilst coding my own stuff I have a line (#76)

"$usa = $row["usa_regions""];

to get the contents of a field 'use_regions' from a mysql database. That field contains a string: 'U1|U3|U5|U12'

However I'm getting the error:

"Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in temporary-record-display.php on line 76"

I don't understand what's wrong with this, and can't find any reference to T_xxxxxx items in the php manual which I've downloaded.

Any help much appreciated,

kind regards,

Graham Nichols.

[Anon]

$usa = $row["usa_regions""];

try this

$usa = $row["usa_regions"];

[Anon]

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)){

$usa = $row["usa_regions"];

}

a little more help

[Anon]

An unwanted extra quotation mark was the culprit? Yikes!! - how red is my face? I looked at that for ages and never saw it! I come back after a break and it smacks me harder than Mike Tyson's momma 🙂 (just kidding Mike)

Thanks Derrick. I'm off to write out 1,000 lines "I must read my ..."

best, Graham

[Anon]

Ooops! That wasn't it. My actual code didn't have the extra quotation mark that my mis-typed example had (I thought that even I couldn't have been that dumb)

The line reads $usa = $row["usa_regions"];
so I still don't know that's causing the parse error :-(

Graham,

[Anon]

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)){

$usa = $row["usa_regions"];

}

Do you have a close brakcet???

like the example above?