Re: explode and escape character for string separator
| From: | Chris Shiflett | Date: | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:42:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: explode and escape character for string separator | ||
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--- "Reuben D. Budiardja" <reubendb@innovativethought.com> wrote:
> Suppose I have a long string like
> $myStr = "$string1:$string2:$string3";
>
> I can obviously explode them using ":" as the separator. But what if
> $string1 contains the character ":" by itself?
You should strive to make your delimiter unique. A delimiter that might
possibly appear within the items it is meant to delimit is no longer a
delimiter.
Chris
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