Re: split() - not working in this case

Yeah, I have outputted to browser Split() was working fine.. Sorry for the noise on the list. But I have realised that the very moment I posted the mail on the list. /Chandu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Wesley" <cwwesley@udlug.org> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Cc: "N. Pari Purna Chand" <paripurnachand@mihiramail.net> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] split() - not working in this case > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, N. Pari Purna Chand wrote: > > > $to = " abcd <abcd@asd.net>, efgh <xxx@xxx.com>" ; > > > Now split() in the following function*** is notworking as needed. > > ie, I'm getting > > $tos[0] = "abcd"; > > $tos[1] = "efgh"; > > split didn't do anything wrong. use your browser's "view source" to see > the desired output. funny things, those less-than & greater-than > characters ... they make browsers think you've created an HTML tag! > > Two things you can do to make displaying such data in a browser: > > 1) if you're trying to display text that has HTML entities in it, > within a HTML page, use the htmlentities() function when > printing output. http://www.php.net/htmlentities > > 2) if you don't care about HTML at all, send a Content-type header that > tells the browser what you're sending is text. > header( "Content-type: text/plain" ); > > g.luck, > ~Chris > > > > >