Re: explode and escape character for string separator

On Saturday 19 July 2003 03:04, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > 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. Do note that your delimiter is not limited to a single character, it can be a sequence of characters. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Horner's Five Thumb Postulate: Experience varies directly with equipment ruined. */