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May 22.2006

Hi all,

I am having a problem including % symbols in php strings.

Escaping them with doesn’t seem to work.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Rob.

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@GarySMay 22.2006 — Don't think they need to be escaped, do they? What are you using them for?
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@nightsterauthorMay 22.2006 — Yeah, they are giving me problems. I'm using them as part of a table instruction within a printf statement. Here's the statement:

printf("<table width="100%"");

But it is throwing a 'too few arguements' error.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Rob.
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@felgallMay 22.2006 — % has a special meaning to printf() why not use print() instead?
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@bokehMay 22.2006 — Why are you using [I]printf()[/I] for that. No benefit whatsoever in that instance. Use [I]echo()[/I] or [I]print()[/I] instead.
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@nightsterauthorMay 22.2006 — Why are you using [I]printf()[/I] for that. No benefit whatsoever in that instance. Use [I]echo()[/I] or [I]print()[/I] instead.[/QUOTE]

Ah right, thanks!

To be honest, I always use printf(), habit I guess - I'm not sure why.

Out of interest, what's the difference between them?
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@bokehMay 22.2006 — There is a very detailed explanation of each of those in the manual.
[list]
  • [*][URL=http://es2.php.net/sprintf]sprintf()[/URL]
  • [*][URL=http://es2.php.net/printf]printf()[/URL]
  • [*][URL=http://es2.php.net/echo]echo()[/URL]
  • [*][URL=http://es2.php.net/print]print()[/URL]

    • [/list]
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