Re: explode and escape character for string separator

On Friday 18 July 2003 02:42 pm, Chris Shiflett wrote: > --- "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. I did strive for that. But whatever character I choose, the problem remains that we can't guarantee that it's going ot be only used as deliminater, since the deliminated string is an input from user. So the problem remains. RDB -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. -------------------------------------------------