RE: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-07-01 Thread Beverly Steiner
if I'm getting the information from a database (MySQL), not defining it using single quotes like in your example? Bev -Original Message- From: Uli B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 11:56 AM To: PHP List Subject: Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string use

Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-07-01 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 01 July 2002 22:47, Beverly Steiner wrote: Uli others, Thanx for the suggestions. This works as stated but the data already exists in this format from an old database and I'm trying to parse it into logical fields. Originally the data in the field looked something like

RE: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-07-01 Thread Beverly Steiner
Jason, Thank you, explode using single quotes and no backslashes works! Bev -Original Message- From: Jason Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string On Monday 01 July 2002 22:47

RE: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-07-01 Thread Uli B
- From: Uli B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 11:56 AM To: PHP List Subject: Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string use single quotes: double quotes would confuse php with variable names. it thinks that $General is a variable and replace it by it's empty content. single

Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-06-29 Thread Uli B
use single quotes: double quotes would confuse php with variable names. it thinks that $General is a variable and replace it by it's empty content. single quotes prevent php from evaluating the string: $test_string = '1.2$General/ms1.zip'; single quotes on regex too (same reason). the

Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-06-29 Thread Jason Wong
On Saturday 29 June 2002 22:58, Beverly Steiner wrote: I've tried everything I can think of to change a dallar sign in a string to something else or to split the string on the $ but I can't the the information that comes after the $. Typical string contains: 1.2$General/ms1.zip when I try:

RE: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-06-29 Thread Beverly Steiner
Jason, Thanx for your suggestion but I tried it and it didn't work. I'm not sure if it matters, but this running on NT. Bev -Original Message- From: Jason Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] need to change

Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-06-29 Thread Jason Wong
On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:24, Beverly Steiner wrote: Thanx for your suggestion but I tried it and it didn't work. I'm not sure if it matters, but this running on NT. Not sure whether NT has anything to do with it but it works for me :-) If you can't get the following code to work then you

Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-06-29 Thread Paul Roberts
works for me on win2k - Original Message - From: Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:24, Beverly Steiner wrote: Thanx for your suggestion but I tried

Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

2002-06-29 Thread hugh danaher
try double \\ to escape the special characters used by php for variables and what not. I think I read it here on a previous post. Hope this helps Hugh - Original Message - From: Beverly Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 7:58 AM