On Dec 21, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
> A much easier way to do this would be to use a temporary array and then explode:
>
> $tmp = array();
> while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) // pulling stuff from a database
> {
> $tmp[] = $row['category'];
> }
>
> $topic = explode('~',$tmp); // put the delimiter between each entry
> echo($topic); // this result is used in an AJAX script
>
>
> No more worrying about whether the delimiter is the last character.
>
> Ken
Ken:
Slick -- I like it.
But, the question remains -- if you make the last character in a string a '' (or null), then what's the problem with doing that?
Cheers,
tedd
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