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$$var in php haunts me to my core

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does that look up a variable at runtime by name using the value of $var as the name?

$var = "x";
$x = "banana";
echo $$var;

will that print banana?

YES U ARE CORRECT

see i've never done php but it works exactly the same way in perl so i just assumed

what's weird is that classic bourne shell doesn't even have this feature, and bash has it under a different syntax!

var=x
x=banana
echo "${!var}"

because in bash $$ is a variable itself, so $$var means the $$ variable followed by var, and ${$var} is a syntax error for some reason!

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