Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing variables within string variables

2006-04-08 Thread David Clough
Dear Paul, this is exactly the solution I needed, and works as described! Many thanks for thinking through this with me. Yours, David. On 8 Apr 2006, at 00:05, Paul Novitski wrote: At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, David Clough wrote: I have to parse the string 'Hello $foo' as it comes from

Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing variables within string variables

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, David Clough wrote: I have to parse the string 'Hello $foo' as it comes from the database: I don't get to construct it. I did hold out more hope for the eval function, but it seems to me that this is for PHP code in a database, not to evaluate variables. David, please tr

[PHP] Re: Parsing variables within string variables

2006-04-07 Thread David Clough
Thanks for all these responses, but unless I'm missing something none of them work for what I need. Quotes are irrelevant: with the string "Hello $foo" in $bar echo "$bar" echo $bar both produce Hello $foo and echo '$bar' produces $bar I can't use any of the answers l