What is the correct syntax to make array key a variable?

[ridiculous]

I have simple question that I haven't been able to source an answer for. Hopefully, someone can "word all over this piece."

 

 

/// Here's my associative array:

 

$girl['erica']="fat";

$girl['monica]="pregnant";

$girl['vanna']="old";

 

/// Here's a variable that I want to use in place of hardcoding in a key

$var = "erica";

 

//// Here's how I am unsuccessfully trying to print the key, value pair

print ($girl[$var]);

 

 

//// The result I am looking for, of course, is equivalent to

$girl['erica']="fat";

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[rajesh]

Try the below code

 

<?php

/// Here's my associative array:

 

$girl['erica']="fat";

$girl['monica']="pregnant";

$girl['vanna']="old";

 

/// Here's a variable that I want to use in place of hardcoding in a key

$var = "erica";

 

//// Here's how I am unsuccessfully trying to print the key, value pair

print ($girl["$var"]);

 

 

//// The result I am looking for, of course, is equivalent to

$girl['erica']="fat";

 

?>

[p2grace]

I just tested the original code and it worked perfectly on my box.  What exactly is it displaying that's not right?