[PHP] Date Problem with \n

2007-08-13 Thread Kevin Murphy 

Small issue with formatting a date. If I type in this:

echo date(g:i:s a \o\n l F j, Y);

the n character in the word on doesn't appear, but instead what I  
get is a new line in the source code. If I type it as:


echo date(g:i:s a \on l F j, Y);

I get the number 8 (current month) where the n is supposed to be.

Is there any way to get an n in there?

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Re: [PHP] Date Problem with \n

2007-08-13 Thread Jim Lucas 

Kevin Murphy wrote:

Small issue with formatting a date. If I type in this:

echo date(g:i:s a \o\n l F j, Y);

the n character in the word on doesn't appear, but instead what I 
get is a new line in the source code. If I type it as:


echo date(g:i:s a \on l F j, Y);

I get the number 8 (current month) where the n is supposed to be.

Is there any way to get an n in there?



Use single quotes, then your \n will not be converted to a NL char

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Re: [PHP] Date Problem with \n

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Lynch 
On Mon, August 13, 2007 12:50 pm, Kevin Murphy wrote:
 Small issue with formatting a date. If I type in this:

 echo date(g:i:s a \o\n l F j, Y);

 the n character in the word on doesn't appear, but instead what I
 get is a new line in the source code. If I type it as:

 echo date(g:i:s a \on l F j, Y);

 I get the number 8 (current month) where the n is supposed to be.

 Is there any way to get an n in there?

As noted, apostrophes will work in this case.

If you need to embed a variable, however, you may want to re-read this
from the manual a couple times:


You can prevent a recognized character in the format string from
being expanded by escaping it with a preceding backslash. If the
character with a backslash is already a special sequence, you may need
to also escape the backslash.

So, for example:

date(g:i:s a \o\\n l F j, Y);

Here's what happens:

PHP's string parser eats the \\ and turns it into a single
back-slash: \

*THEN* you have \n being passed to the C date() function, which then
eats the \n and says:
This is then not the n for Numeric representation of a month,
without leading zeros but just a regular old n as text.

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