Display search function by letters

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HI I am completing a search function searching by letter.

I want my letters to display as A | B | C | D | etc. See below code, however if i do

$letters="a | b |" etc it shows the | as a clickable link

Can someone help?

What I have tried:

$letters="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
echo "<div class='bigMargin'>";
echo "<span class=\"bold\"><h4>Browse By Letter </h4><br></br></span>";
for ($i=0; $i<=35; $i++) {
   $letter=substr($letters,$i,1);
   echo "<a href='babyNameFinder.php?initial=$letter'>$letter</a> ";
}
echo "</div>";

Posted 5-Feb-18 1:53am

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Updated 5-Feb-18 2:31am

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-05T02:31:00

You are creating links and therefore the text within the a tags will be shown as links. If you want to add separators, you have to print them outside the link tags:

PHP

$letters="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
for ($i=0; $i<=35; $i++) {
    $letter=substr($letters,$i,1);
    if ($i)
        echo " | ";
    echo "<a href='babyNameFinder.php?initial=$letter'>$letter</a> ";
}