I would like to help, but i need some mor details. each line of the text file is a flight? If so, how are separeted each passenger? It would be important to help me in thinkin somethink to help you. "bob pilly" <bobpilly@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu na mensagem news:20060801174905.79517.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi all > > Does anyone know if you can assign a new variable name based on the > contents of another variable in PHP? If so whats the syntax to do this? > > I am parsing a text file that has tens of preset attributes and some of > these have hundreds of sub attributes. For example the text file contains > flight details, on every flight there can be up to 500 passengers but > there are generally only 50 so i dont want to have declare 500 vars when i > hardly ever use them. What i am trying to do is count the amount of > pasengers present and dynamically create the variables based on > this.$surname1,$surname2 etc... > > Im not sure whether this is a sane way to approach this problem or not. > Any advice or pointing to relevant documentation about either syntax for > this or ways of tackling this sort of problem (im sure it must be a > regular occurance in the coding world??) would be greatly appreciated!! > > Thanks in advance for any help or advice. > > Cheers > > Bob > > > --------------------------------- > All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and > ease of use." - PC Magazine -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
