Pipes are also good visual delimiters - so if you're reading through output or looking in your raw data, I find that by scanning for pipes is a lot easier visually than other sorts of delimiters. I've sometimes used two or three pipes in a row just to make sure I don't have someone entering a single pipe to screw up the code or to just make it that much easier to find in large strings of text. -M -----Original Message----- From: John Nichel [mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:29 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: splitting string M. Sokolewicz wrote: > please explain... WHY is that better? For me, I'll use pipes because they are so rarely used (if ever) when an user is entering text. If I make my delimiter a newline (or comma, etc.), and an end user enters one with whatever they're inputting, it will screw up my split. -- John C. Nichel ÜberGeek KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 john@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
