The term 'special characters' actually may be a little "strong". when parsing a string that may contain variables, some character just aren't considered to be part of a variable name. Like the "$" which is the start of a variable and not a character anywhere else in the variable name. So in this case, is "$" a special character? I do not think it really matters especially if one starts to follow the "no vars in strings" best practice.
[ 17. September 2003, 02:59: Message edited by: Howard Bullock ]
