On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 22:15 +0800, Man-wai Chang wrote: > Buesching, Logan J wrote: > > Heh, lucky me I was just looking into that earlier today. > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php > > Around the "Simple Syntax" area. > > Thanks. Foxpro called this macro substitution. Only if used as a variable interpolation delimiter within heredoc or a double quoted string. You didn't originally mention a string context, in which case it's for accessing variables with dynamic names. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php