howto build a string...

From: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 04:59:25 +0000
Subject: howto build a string...
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I would like to build a string within a case statement, but the result is always zero. Here is the code, what am I missing? $select = "SELECT * FROM bare_asin WHERE checked = 0"; $select2 = ""; if( isset($s) ) { switch($s) { case "A1": $select2 = $select + " ORDER BY asin ASC;"; echo("<tr><td colspan='5'>A1=$select2</td></tr>"); break; case "A2": $select2 = $select + " ORDER BY asin DESC;"; echo("<tr><td colspan='5'>A2=$select2</td></tr>"); break; default: $select2 = "SELECT * FROM bare_asin WHERE checked = 0"; echo("<tr><td colspan='5'>$select2</td></tr>"); } $select = $select2; } echo("<tr><td colspan='5'>\$select2=[$select2]</td></tr>"); echo("<tr><td colspan='5'>$select</td></tr>"); I would prefer to simply eliminate the $select2 variable. Sam

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