Re: Strange string stuff -- maybe everything is ending...

On Dec 21, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn@rbnsn.com> wrote > A much easier way to do this would be to use a temporary array and then explode: > > $tmp = array(); > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) // pulling stuff from a database > { > $tmp[] = $row['category']; > } > > $topic = explode('~',$tmp); // put the delimiter between each entry > echo($topic); // this result is used in an AJAX script > > > No more worrying about whether the delimiter is the last character. > > Ken Ken: Slick -- I like it. But, the question remains -- if you make the last character in a string a '' (or null), then what's the problem with doing that? Cheers, tedd _____________________ tedd@sperling.com http://sperling.com