Combine variable and text creating email address?

[csf7roa]

Hi,

I would really appreciate help with the following.

I am trying to combine a variables value with text in order to form an email address to use in the mail function.

I have tried the following code:

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$email = '$start@email.uk';
$to = $email;

The variable '$start' contains only the start of an email address before the '@' symbol (e.g. emailstart) and I want to combine this with the text '@email.uk' in order to form the complete email address 'emailstart@email.uk'.

The above code does not work in combining these and I have also tried using the '+' symbol between them but to no avail. Has anyone got any ideas?

[Nullsig]

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$email = $start . '@email.uk';
$to = $email;

[csf7roa]

Brilliant!

Works fine.

Many Thanks!

[egami]

you could have avoided the whole riggamora of that thing by just stating:


$to = "$start@email.uk";

here's why it didn't work.

$email = '$start@email.uk';
This single tick blocks transformation of variables to strings in output.
Using double quotes " " will transform variables to strings in output.

$to = $email;
An un-needed, unnecessary step. creating two variables with the exact same information is ... you get the idea.

[Nullsig]

You are correct egami. But I felt teaching that "." is the method of concatenation is more important then stressing the difference in parsing between single and double quoted strings.

[egami]

No question or qualms there
I was adding to your comment, not trying to change it

[Nullsig]

Didn't mean to come across as hostile... Just wanted to state the reason for my solution to assist csf7roa in understanding what was going on.

[egami]

I don't take the Internet seriously..
Too many others do for me to get involved

[Nullsig]

[egami]

If that guy was any more serious, he'd be cross-eyed!