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

2002-07-01 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] Re: checking

2002-07-01 Thread Uli B
== (2) is for comparison while you are accidently doing assignments by = (1) if ($lastname=) - wrong if ($lastname==) - better that's why u r screwed up here :-) Uli At 17:49 30.06.02 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: In article 03d201c21db6$7deb2110$7800a8c0@leonard , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leo) wrote:

Re: [PHP] Regular Expression Problem

2002-07-02 Thread Uli B
- don't use /^ .. $/ if you want to replace all occurences. ^ and $ refer to the very start and end of the whole string and make no sense at all - at least in this case. your regexp will not match at all unless $var contains only a single variable and nothing more - either capture