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Posted by Lucanos on 11/14/07 05:39
On Nov 14, 3:52 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 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!"
>
> >> --
> >> ==================
> >> Remove the "x" from my email address
> >> Jerry Stuckle
> >> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> >> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> >> ==================
>
> > 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...
>
> --
> ==================
> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================
Exactly what I was looking for - Many thanks Jerry!
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