How To Handle a String Containing Apostrophes and Quotation Marks

[Lucanos]

Hey Guys,

Probably a simple question, but one I am struggling with all the same.
I know that in PHP you wrap a text string in apostrophes or quotations
- (examples $variable = 'this string' OR $variable = "that string" ).

What I am trying to figure is how to handle a string which contains
both apostrophes and quotations already. Is there a something like
CDATA is for XML?

Thanks
Luke

[Jerry Stuckle]

Lucanos wrote:

Hey Guys,

Probably a simple question, but one I am struggling with all the same.
I know that in PHP you wrap a text string in apostrophes or quotations
- (examples $variable = 'this string' OR $variable = "that string" ).

What I am trying to figure is how to handle a string which contains
both apostrophes and quotations already. Is there a something like
CDATA is for XML?

Thanks
Luke

Escape them with backslashes, i.e.

echo 'It\'s a boy!";
echo "He said \"Here we go again!\"";

It's a boy!
He said "Here we go again!"

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[Lucanos]

On Nov 14, 3:14 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

Lucanos wrote:

Hey Guys,

Probably a simple question, but one I am struggling with all the same.
I know that in PHP you wrap a text string in apostrophes or quotations
- (examples $variable = 'this string' OR $variable = "that string" ).

What I am trying to figure is how to handle a string which contains
both apostrophes and quotations already. Is there a something like
CDATA is for XML?

Thanks
Luke

Escape them with backslashes, i.e.

echo 'It\'s a boy!";
echo "He said \"Here we go again!\"";

It's a boy!
He said "Here we go again!"

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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
[e-mail]
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Hi Jerry,

Thanks for the reply - I appreciate it.
The backslashing looks easy enough, but what if you are dealing with a
large chunk of text which contains both types of characters? I know I
could manually fo a "find-and-replace" to add backslashes, but is
there any other way?

Once again, I appreciate your help.

Luke

[Jerry Stuckle]

Lucanos wrote:

On Nov 14, 3:14 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

>Lucanos wrote:

>>Hey Guys,
Probably a simple question, but one I am struggling with all the same.
I know that in PHP you wrap a text string in apostrophes or quotations
- (examples $variable = 'this string' OR $variable = "that string" ).
What I am trying to figure is how to handle a string which contains
both apostrophes and quotations already. Is there a something like
CDATA is for XML?
Thanks
Luke

Escape them with backslashes, i.e.

echo 'It\'s a boy!";
echo "He said \"Here we go again!\"";

It's a boy!
He said "Here we go again!"

--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
[e-mail]
==================

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for the reply - I appreciate it.
The backslashing looks easy enough, but what if you are dealing with a
large chunk of text which contains both types of characters? I know I
could manually fo a "find-and-replace" to add backslashes, but is
there any other way?

Once again, I appreciate your help.

Luke

For large amounts of text, with or without quotes and apostrophes, try
the heredoc syntax:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...syntax.heredoc

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[Lucanos]

On Nov 14, 3:52 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

Lucanos wrote:

On Nov 14, 3:14 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

Lucanos wrote:
Hey Guys,
Probably a simple question, but one I am struggling with all the same.
I know that in PHP you wrap a text string in apostrophes or quotations
- (examples $variable = 'this string' OR $variable = "that string" ).
What I am trying to figure is how to handle a string which contains
both apostrophes and quotations already. Is there a something like
CDATA is for XML?
Thanks
Luke
Escape them with backslashes, i.e.

echo 'It\'s a boy!";
echo "He said \"Here we go again!\"";

It's a boy!
He said "Here we go again!"

--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
[e-mail]
==================

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for the reply - I appreciate it.
The backslashing looks easy enough, but what if you are dealing with a
large chunk of text which contains both types of characters? I know I
could manually fo a "find-and-replace" to add backslashes, but is
there any other way?

Once again, I appreciate your help.

Luke

For large amounts of text, with or without quotes and apostrophes, try
the heredoc syntax:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...language.types...

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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
[e-mail]
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Exactly what I was looking for - Many thanks Jerry!