[snip] yeah 'Superman' explain what it is you want to do AND why - then maybe we can give you some help - what you are currently asking is impossible (well actually Jay Blanchard hinted at a way to do it but I firmly believe that its conceptually over your head atm and very probably not a good solution to what you want to acheive - which is not to say that Jays hint was crap or wrong; more like the problem you posed originally is moot.) [/snip] We actually wrote a little code doohickey called Variable Hunter in which the doohickey could be run within a project folder and locate all of the variables with their respective name spaces and lines numbers. Nifty little tool. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php