Re: Escaping dollar sign???

Ahhh... Works great! Thanks! I'm a newbie so this may be elementary but...the caveat is, I can't have any more ' in the string. This is bad: $statement = 'if ($a == 1) { some_func('some text'); }'; This is ok: $statement = 'if ($a == 1) { some_func("some text"); }'; Thanks a million!!! -Shawn "Matt Schroebel" <MSchroebel@hsus.org> wrote in message news:D4DB668A680B2549AE977FB0B193E2E80373D6@email.hsus.org... How about: $statement = 'if ($a == 1) { some_func(); }'; echo $statement; In the double quoted string $a was replaced by it's value. > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn McKenzie [mailto:nospam@mckenzies.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:05 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Escaping dollar sign??? > > > To eval() the $statement string below, I've found that I need > to escape the > $. str_replace() is not working for this. Any ideas??? > > $statement = "if ($a == 1) { some_func(); }"; > echo $statement; > > Produces (this is not what I want): > if ( == 1) { some_func(); } > > Manual escaping : > $statement = "if (\$a == 1) { some_func(); }"; > echo $statement; > > Produces (this is what I want, great!!!): > if ($a == 1) { some_func(); } > > String replace: > $statement = "if ($a == 1) { some_func(); }"; > $statement = str_replace("$", "\$", $statement); > echo $statement; > > Produces (what am I missing???): > if ( == 1) { some_func(); } >