On 23 April 2009 11:36, Mark Casson advised: > Hi Guys, > > Thanks to you both - you are spot on! > > Shame this is not better documented somewhere. I don't know how much better documented it can be than at http://php.net/language.types.string ... ;) Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, C507, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter Campus, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS, LS1 3HE, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php