On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:37, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: > Like I have a clue :) > > I want to convert some fields from TEXT to VARCHAR(255). > (Going from a textarea to an input type=text) > I've checked the length of each $mydata->ST, so I won't be losing data. > What I am worried about is losing data if there are \n in any of the > fields. > > How do I check to see if a \n exists in $mydata->ST in my WHILE statement? > > $sql = 'SELECT id,ST FROM ccl.ccl_main'; > ... > $news = mysql_query($sql); > while ($mydata = mysql_fetch_object($news)) > { > if ???????$mydata->ST????????? > echo "$mydata->id - $mydata->ST<hr>"; > }
Use strstr() with "\n" as the needle. Check out the "String functions" chapter, lots more goodies there. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* To program is to be. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php