Create $Str with special characters.

[AV1611]

How do you do this without manually escaping the " in the string (oh, and the \ as well)?

 

$str="1234567890 ';:|'"/\<>?][}{)(*&^%$#@!~ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";

 

addslashes doesn't seem to work that way.

[Rithiur]

Well.. Uhh, you could use HEREDOC syntax, maybe... like

 

$str = <<<CHARS
1234567890 ';:|'"/\<>?][}{)(*&^%$#@!~ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
CHARS;

 

In this particular case, the $ does not create a problems, since it's not followed by valid variable name, but if it's followed by anything that makes it valid variable, it will parse as variable.

[tibberous]

Trick question! Use ' instead of ", and escape the '!

 

&

 

[sOLVED]

[AV1611]

Trick question! Use ' instead of ", and escape the '!

 

&

 

[sOLVED]

 

Um, that solves nothing. 

 

You can create a variable with CHARS?

 

How do I deal with the $ as you stated above?  I have a string that could have anything the type decided to type into the field...

[Rithiur]

Well, if you are getting the variable from user input and would like to save it into an executable PHP, then you could simply replace \ with \\ and ' with \' and save it inside single quotes.

 

For example, the following will var_dump the original value that was given to str_replace

 

<?php
$string = str_replace(
array("\\", "'"), array("\\\\", "\\'"),
"1234567890 ';:|'\"/\<>?][}{)(*&^%$#@!~ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ");

$string = eval("return '$string';");

var_dump($string);
?>

[AV1611]

You still haven't solved my problem.  How do I get the string to add the slashes automatically to begin with?  addslashes doesn't do it...

[kenrbnsn]

What do you mean by

How do I get the string to add the slashes automatically to begin with?  addslashes doesn't do it...

 

You can create the string by doing:

<?php
$chars = '1234567890 ' . "'" . ';:|' . "'" . '"/\<>?][}{)(*&^%$#@!~abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
?>

 

Ken

[AV1611]

I guess I can't explain myself good enough.

 

I have no way to predict what the string is, as I am dealing with a parsed text document.  I know how to do this manually, as you did above with concanation.  <sp?>  What I need is for the script to do this automatically.  I am dealing with csv/tsv file parsing between platforms.

[AV1611]

Sorry for double post

 

TSV solves part of the problem but when you use .xls extension with tsv, if column has only numbers xls assumes it to be a number.  we have part numbers like 0900.120 so tsv -> with .xls extension displays 900.12 in excel when opened.  If I could put "0900.120" in the tsv, the it would be ok, but then if there is a " in the string, or \ for that matter, I'm screwed again.