Posted by Sandman on 12/04/05 13:11

In article <dmufad$7tb$1@phys-news4.kolumbus.fi>,
"Kimmo Laine" <antaatulla.sikanautaa@gmail.com.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:

> "cover" <coverlandNOSPAM914@yahoo.com> kirjoitti
> viestissä:ht75p19vmbq58lmoqk1jiuutnf32hkbrom@4ax.com...
> > 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?
>
>
> <?php
>
> $query = "here's a cool dollar sign: ".'$'." , and some more text";
> $anotherquery = "Another way to put a dollar sign \$ is to escape it with a
> backslash";
> echo $query;
> echo $anotherquery;
>
> ?>

print '$A $third $way $is $to $not $use $interpolating $quotes';



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