Specifies the characters to be treated as separators in the string arguments of the SetSeriesValuesFromString, SetCategoriesFromString and SetDataFromTxtFile methods.

void object->SetSeparators( string separators, boolean ignoremultseparators )

Arguments

object

Required. A Chart object.

separators

Required. A string that specifies the characters treated as separators.

ignoremultseparators

Required. A boolean value.
True : consecutive separators are treated as a single separator.
False : two consecutive separators delimit a blank value.

Remarks

By default, SetSeriesValuesFromString, SetCategoriesFromString and SetDataFromTxtFile methods treat the character ";" as the unique separator and two consecutive ";" characters in a string delimit a blank value.

PHP Sample Code

The following PHP code illustrates use of the SetSeparators method.

// Let's set the categories of a chart object with a ";"-delimited string
$sep= ";";
$ignoremultseparators= true;

// Before setting the categories, we must specify the separators
$chart->SetSeparators($sep, $ignoremultseparators);

$myString= "North America" . $sep . "South America" . $sep . "Europe" . $sep . "Middle East" . $sep . "Asia";

// Fill the chart with the categories stored in the myString variable
$chart->SetCategoriesFromString($myString);

About multiple separators

You can also specify whether the chart object should ignore multiple separators or not (i.e. the boolean argument ignoremultseparators) while processing the strings or text file passed as arguments of the SetSeriesValuesFromString, SetCategoriesFromString or SetDataFromTxtFile methods. The following example shows how it can affect the way data are stored in the chart object.

// Let's set the categories with ";"-delimited string
$sep= ";";

// The myString variable has two consecutive separators
$myString= "North America" . $sep . $sep . "South America" . $sep . "Europe" . $sep . "Middle East" . $sep . "Asia";

1. Ignoring multiple separators and calling the method SetCategoriesFromString...

   $chart->SetSeparators($sep, true);
   $chart->SetCategoriesFromString($myString);
   

   
   

   ...leads the following categories stored in the chart object:

   Categories =	North America	South America	Europe	Middle East	Asia

   
   
2. However, treating multiple separators as blank values and calling the method SetCategoriesFromString...

   $chart->SetSeparators($sep, false);
   $chart->SetCategoriesFromString($myString);
   

   
   

   ...leads to the following categories stored in the chart object (Notice the blank value):

   Categories =	North America		South America	Europe	Middle East	Asia

   
   

See Also

GetSeparators Method | SetSeriesValuesFromString Method | SetCategoriesFromString Method | SetDataFromTxtFile Method | SetUnicode Method

Applies To: Chart Object