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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/14/07 04:52
Lucanos wrote:
> On Nov 14, 3:14 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Lucanos wrote:
>>> Hey Guys,
>>> Probably a simple question, but one I am struggling with all the same.
>>> I know that in PHP you wrap a text string in apostrophes or quotations
>>> - (examples $variable = 'this string' OR $variable = "that string" ).
>>> What I am trying to figure is how to handle a string which contains
>>> both apostrophes and quotations already. Is there a something like
>>> CDATA is for XML?
>>> Thanks
>>> Luke
>> Escape them with backslashes, i.e.
>>
>> echo 'It\'s a boy!";
>> echo "He said \"Here we go again!\"";
>>
>> It's a boy!
>> He said "Here we go again!"
>>
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>> Remove the "x" from my email address
>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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>
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Thanks for the reply - I appreciate it.
> The backslashing looks easy enough, but what if you are dealing with a
> large chunk of text which contains both types of characters? I know I
> could manually fo a "find-and-replace" to add backslashes, but is
> there any other way?
>
> Once again, I appreciate your help.
>
> Luke
>
>
For large amounts of text, with or without quotes and apostrophes, try
the heredoc syntax:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc
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