Dollar Sign issues

Hello fellow DevShedders,

I have a wee little script (only 109kb or so) that has a little problems. The script e-mails a quote for a price to the user. The only problem the script is having is within the e-mail. I am using a Windows system, so I'm using number_format for the dollar amount. I use a code something like this:

echo "Your price is $".number_format($price, 2, ".", ",")." for you item.";

The problem is that when this is appearing in the e-mails, it appears as follows:

Your price is \$19.55 for your item.

I've tried str_replace to get rid of the "\" character, but to no avail. Is there any way to ensure that the \ will not be automatically put in by PHP?

I decided to give this issue to the experts... You!

Sincerely,
Confused blind monkey.

use \ before any symbols that have a actual use in php or anything of the sort.

try using stripslashes($str);

I do use backslashes before symbols, but whether I do or not, PHP will include them in the e-mail body no matter what. I'll try the slash stripping function and see if that clears them. Thanks for the advice.

Try:

echo 'Your price is $'.number_format($price, 2, ".", ",").' for you item.';


The single quotes make PHP treat $ as any other character, not a variable.

(emphasis mine)

So what is the actual code you're using, because that code you gave will not add a slash before the dollar sign. You must be doing something else to the string in order for the slash to appear.

---John Holmes...