Hi all!

Is it possible to use strings joined together to reference a variable? Let me demonstrate what I would like to do...

$wonderFull = "The String I want to get at";

$var1 = "wonder"
$var2 = "Full"

$temp = $var1 . $var2

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Now obviously that wont work as "." just joins things. I want temp to be set to the value of $wonderFull.

Is this even possible?

Thanks people,

M

The reason I want to do this is that I will have a large cgi script with many predefined open file handles. I want the user to select two values from pull down boxes on a web page and then by using these it will use the correct file handle. It could be done with lots of if statements but there must be a better way to do it?

In reply to Many strings make one variable? by heezy

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