Hi,
Of course, I solve it just after I decide to post...
For some reason, my customer's spreadsheet data has unusual non-printing
characters in some of the fields that weren't showing up in the page
source. All I needed to do is strip them out with a regex.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions
Ge
When this happens to me I always just echo the variable value like so to
see if something is there that shouldn't be:
echo "";
echo "$id";
echo "";
obviously all this does is print the variable with a bunch of c's before
and after. That way I can see if there are any extra things include
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:15, Geoff Caplan wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> A strange one - unless I am having a brainstorm...
>
> I am reading in tab delimited files created in Excel on Windows and
> uploaded to Linux.
>
> Cell A1 contains a numeric id - I extract this into a variable, $id,
> by explod
> From: Geoff Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> A strange one - unless I am having a brainstorm...
>
> I am reading in tab delimited files created in Excel on Windows and
> uploaded to Linux.
>
> Cell A1 contains a numeric id - I extract this into a variable, $id,
> by exploding on \
I'm guessing it containt a trailing space, which wouldn't display in
HTML. Try trim()ing it.
Geoff Caplan wrote:
Hi folks,
A strange one - unless I am having a brainstorm...
I am reading in tab delimited files created in Excel on Windows and
uploaded to Linux.
Cell A1 contains a numeric id -
Hi folks,
A strange one - unless I am having a brainstorm...
I am reading in tab delimited files created in Excel on Windows and
uploaded to Linux.
Cell A1 contains a numeric id - I extract this into a variable, $id,
by exploding on \n and \t.
But for some files, the values of $id do not behave
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