Posted by ImOk on 05/05/06 19:21

I come from the Visual Foxpro world, which is one reason I love PHP.
VFP is a scripting type language with macro substitution abilities
similar to PHP.

Besides the regular expansion I can do crazy things (VFP uses & instead
of $):

x="sales"
sales="1000"
salestax="8.25"
? &x
..........prints 1000
? &x.tax
............prints 8.25

tr="trim"
? &tr.("xxx ")
..........prints xxx

? 'This function is &tr.("xxxxx ")'
....... prints This function is trim("xxxxx ")

In VFP the & indicates macro expansions and a space or a . idnicates
the variable termination. Can I do this kind of partial expansion in
PHP? There must be a trick somewhere.

Thanks.

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