Richard Lynch wrote: > On Wed, January 2, 2008 1:27 pm, Jim Lucas wrote: >>> The string contains: >>> >>> A >>> >> The problem is, is that you are not getting >> >> A >> when you submit your form. >> >> It is being URL encoded by the browser and you are actually getting >> >>  %20 %20 %20 A %20 %20 %20  > > But that is URL *DE*-coded by PHP internally before it's crammed into > $_POST/$_GET/$_COOKIES! > Ok, so here is my little friend, my packet exploder... So, I wrote this packet decoder last week for a different project. Come to find out, it is a very hand little tool. Takes text input and dumps it like a normal packet analyzer application. Check out what is found. http://www.cmsws.com/examples/html/form_encoding.php This I think shows what tedd is looking for. so, from this I deduce that this should work. $submit = trim($submit, "\xA0\x20"); What do you guys/gals think? -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php