I was trying to remember, because I wanted to show someone about PHP that Perl could do it, so is there a similar way to do that in PHP... but there is not, at least, I could NOT find a way. So, I'll just have to change what I'm doing in PHP.

The programmer that created all of that PHP died recently, so we are changing the code, but it is way to big to change it all to Perl, so leaving it php.

Big job but changing it is important, to update it to a new system.

anyhow, the eval works so different in PHP.

My best,
-Richard

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