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How does magic quotes access the array element containing "-" in name?

I was going through a manual and found a statement saying "if array element used with '-' as the word separator, the array's element can be accessed by magic quotes".. but didn't provided with any explanations on it. could some one explain the reason behind this?

Solution

  • It's seemingly this one (since OP won't tell us):
    http://www.dagbladet.no/development/phpcodingstandard/#arrayelement

    Here "magic quotes" is simply the wrong designation. They mean double quoted string interpolation, specifically:

    print "$myarr[foo_bar] world";

    versus

    print "$myarr[foo-bar] world";   // invalid

    And indeed only the first one is correct syntax. Else use curly braces and key quotes:

    print "{$myarr['foo-bar']} world";