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. So choose another method. ---John Holmes...