str_replace issue

[SlayerMatt]

Hey guys i am new to this forum and am a bit of a php newbie, my problem is i want to replace all % signs in a string with a _ .

However the % sign is the wildcard in the str_replace function, is there any way i can counter this wildcard effect of the % sign?

Thanks in advance.

Heres what i tried (which didnt work).

str_replace("%", "_", $imgfile_name) ;

[Pig]

maybe "\%"

[xblue]

what makes you think % is a wildcard for str_replace()? str_replace doesn't have any wildcards. even the example at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php uses % as literal characters and is working fine.

just a guess, maybe you forgot to assign the return value of str_replace() to something?

$imgfile_name = str_replace("%", "_", $imgfile_name) ;