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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to correctly use an echo inside an echo? Post 302351989 by mokachoka on Thursday 10th of September 2009 06:40:39 AM
Old 09-10-2009
How to correctly use an echo inside an echo?

Bit of a weird one i suppose, i want to use an echo inside an echo... For example...

i have a script that i want to use to take users input and create another script. Inside this script it creates it also needs to use echos...

echo "echo "hello"" >$file
echo "echo "goodbye"" >$file

Why is this not correct?

Thanks.
 

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mssql_num_fields - Gets the number of fields in result

SYNOPSIS
int mssql_num_fields (resource $result) DESCRIPTION
mssql_num_fields(3) returns the number of fields in a result set. PARAMETERS
o $result - The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to mssql_query(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns the number of fields, as an integer. EXAMPLES
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