Re: Dollar signs in values
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Fri, 07 Mar 2003 06:01:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Dollar signs in values | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Friday 07 March 2003 13:58, Liam Gibbs wrote:
> 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.
Could you show some code to illustrate the unpredictable results that you get?
> Is there a way I can escape them or such?
Use a backslash, or use single-quotes instead of double-quotes.
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