Posted by Homechoice on 12/04/05 11:28

Why not simply assign a variable to the result and then add the dollar
sign?

Something like (pseudo PHP)

$shownamount = "$".$myquery.totalname



In article <ht75p19vmbq58lmoqk1jiuutnf32hkbrom@4ax.com>,
coverlandNOSPAM914@yahoo.com says...
> Does anyone know a successful way to use the dollar sign character
> within a query and not generate an error?
>
> Here's what I'm trying to do... I have a query that successfully
> counts the number of records within a query as well as totalizes the
> dollar amount. What I'd like to do is show a dollar sign ahead of the
> 'amount' total when it queries back to the screen in my html document.
>
> Is there something I can use to null the normal relationship PHP has
> with the $ character where again, I can use it for text purposes?
>
> TIA
>

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