On Friday 18 July 2003 03:01 pm, you wrote: > > On Friday 18 July 2003 02:42 pm, Chris Shiflett wrote: > > > --- "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Suppose I have a long string like > > > > $myStr = "$string1:$string2:$string3"; > > > > > > > > I can obviously explode them using ":" as the separator. But what if > > > > $string1 contains the character ":" by itself? > > > > > > 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. > > So choose another method.
I would if I can think of better method. That answer does not help. RDB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
