Hi,
What's the best way to convert '\t' to a tab character ("\t")?
For example, what's the best way to convert $sq_tab, below, to make the print statement display the same on both sides of the '==='?:

$sq_tab = '\t';
$dq_tab = "\t";
$str = "($sq_tab) === ($dq_tab)";
print $str;


Philibuster

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if ($sq_tab == '\t') $sq_tab = "\t";


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Paul,
TNX for your answer. Do you have a more general solution for this problem which can handle any escaped character (i.e., /t,/r,/n, etc.)? I don't know of any generic PHP functionality that does this sort of escape character handling - do you?

Philibuster

Are you trying to do a comparison of these functions? or are you attempting to do something that allows user input that you can (somewhat) control?

There are functions in php that allow you to do some conversions.

i.e.
  nl2br()
  htmlspecialchars()
  htmlentities()
  wordwrap()
  str_replace()
  etc....

Can start at http://us3.php.net/nl2br and there are links to the others from there.

I could give a better answer if I understood better what it was you are trying to do.




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I provide the user with a way to enter a delimeter character of choice including escaped characters in a form text box. It would be awkward for the user to specify the delimeter via the HTML equiv. escape character (i.e. &xxx;) so I'm allowing for the usual /t, /n, /r type of delimeters. Unfortunately, the text is returned as a literal string (same as '/t', etc.). Although functions such as html_entity_decode() will convert HTML character entities within a literal string (such as '&amp', '&gt', etc. - I don't know of an equivalent function that will handle '/t', '/r', etc. I could write a function - but I thought someone would have a more elegant answer. Any ideas?


Philibuster