Re: Dollar signs in values
| From: | Ernest E Vogelsinger | Date: | Fri, 07 Mar 2003 05:59:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Dollar signs in values | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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At 06:58 07.03.2003, Liam Gibbs said:
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>How is it I can properly get PHP to represent dollar signs when putting it
>into HTML?
>
>I know that dollar signs denote the beginning of a variable, like $reference
>or $ftpstream or whatever. However, I have a text file that contains (or can
>contain) values with $ in them. When I open the file and grab those values,
>then stick them onto my HTML page, they get unpredictable results. Is there
>a way I can escape them or such?
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Escape them with a backslash:
$text = "The amount is \$400.-";
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