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		flir on July 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everything you need (and don't need) to know about... There's another way to get a variable starting with a numeral - abusing extract(), I think.

paledot on July 27, 2020 [–]

I've seen a few workarounds, each worse than the last, including casting back to array, round-tripping through JSON with the array flag set, and reflection. Hence the public service announcement that this is perfectly doable with the correct syntax.

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