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Apr 13.2004

Now I’m just trying to take the first two letters from an array and print them. The string that the characters are coming from is coming from the $_POST array and is the 0 element. This is what I have:

[code=php]
$langFromArray[] = “”;
for($i = 0; $i <2; $i++) {
$langFromArray[$i] = $myVars[0][$i];
}
$langFrom = $langFromArray[0] . langFromArray[1];
print(“This was translated from ” . $langFrom “.”);
PHP]

the error says, “unexpected ‘[‘ ” on the line that begins, “$langFrom = “. Does PHP not handle strings as arrays, b/c that’s all that I can figure…

I’m sure there’s another way to do this so if anyone knows it or sees what I’m doing wrong, I’d appreciate it very much.

thanks, holly

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@bmoremusauthorApr 13.2004 — I forgot to mention that $_POST has been assigned to $myVars.

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@solavarApr 13.2004 — You've got a typing error here:

<i>
</i>$langFrom = $langFromArray[0] . [COLOR=crimson]langFromArray[/COLOR][1];


You've left out the [B]$[/B]
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@bmoremusauthorApr 17.2004 — Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this...

I must have mis-copied my code because I did have a $. Thanks, though.

Here is the code chunk:

[code=php]<?php
$langFromArray[] = "";
for($i = 0; $i <2; $i++) {
$langFromArray[$i] = $myVars[$i];
}
[COLOR=crimson]$langFrom = $langFromArray[0] . langFromArray[1];[/COLOR] [COLOR=orangered]$langFrom = $langFromArray[0] . langFromArray[1];[/COLOR]
print("This was translated from " . $langFrom ".");
?>PHP]

and the eror is:


Parse error: parse error, unexpected '[' in f:student-iatdynamichspharhomeworktranslationservicehermesita-d3-go.php on line 180[/QUOTE]

181 is the line shownin red.
Any ideas?

holly
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@bmoremusauthorApr 17.2004 — that duplicate line doesn't appear in my code; I was having I did''t notice that it was added twice when I colorized it.

holly
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@bmoremusauthorApr 17.2004 — Okay, I'm sorry, I missed the problem. I could've sworn that the $ was there a couple seconds ago.

h
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