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Is there a way to concatenate variable names and a numerical value from another variable to have PHP resolve to a specific variable name? Now, say I have a loop that ...

We often read (including in the book Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper) that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions, they will be treated as string literals and cannot be ...