Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

use single quotes: double quotes would confuse php with variable names. it thinks that $General is a variable and replace it by it's empty content. single quotes prevent php from evaluating the string: $test_string = '1.2$General/ms1.zip'; single quotes on regex too (same reason). the backslash

RE: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

;information from a database (MySQL), not defining it using single quotes >like in your example? > >Bev > > >-Original Message- >From: Uli B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 11:56 AM >To: PHP List >Subject: Re: [PHP] need to change $ char in string

Re: [PHP] Re: checking

"==" (2) is for comparison while you are accidently doing assignments by "=" (1) if ($lastname="") - wrong if ($lastname=="") - better that's why u r screwed up here :-) Uli At 17:49 30.06.02 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: >In article <03d201c21db6$7deb2110$7800a8c0@leonard> , [EMAIL PROTECTED] >(L

Re: [PHP] Regular Expression Problem

- don't use /^ .. $/ if you want to replace all occurences. ^ and $ refer to the very start and end of the whole string and make no sense at all - at least in this case. your regexp will not match at all unless $var contains only a single variable and nothing more - either capture (somethin