On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Navid M. wrote:
> I was wondering how you can evaluate parts of a
> string:
>
> Ex: $fileName = "File";
> $var = '1>>$fileName';
>
> Now I would like a *simple* way of evaluating $var
> such that only '$fileName' gets substituted for its
> value. 'eval' doesn't work since it tries to evaluate
> the whole thing and '1>>' doesn't evaluate to
> anything.
Can you show the context in which you are trying to do this? $filename
won't be anything inside $var because you are using single quotes (use
double quotes and $var will be equal to '1>>File').
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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