Re: An at char before a functioncall?

"Thomas Angst" <ta_php@granitsoft.ch> wrote ... > I saw the following code in a sample: > @unlink("somefile.file"); > what function has that at character in front of the function call? Note to the maintainers of the otherwise excellent online manual at php.net: all special characters (like @) seem to act as stop words in the search, with the result that it is not possible to find out about them unless you already know what they do. I discovered that a while ago whilst trying to find info on the :: operator. Similarly, a search for @ yields "Sorry, no documents matched your search for"@".", despite the fact that the documentation is right there at: http://www.php.net/manual/features.error-handling.php Although it is probably a good idea to strip most non-alpha characters from a search string, perhaps characters with special meaning in PHP could be allowed.