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[PHP3] Re: Re: [PHP3] Problem with backslash in Windows paths From: Richard Lynch (lynch <email protected>)
Date: 03/17/99

At 10:10 AM 3/17/99, manuel.hossfeld <email protected> wrote:
>Rich,
>
>> I dunno what you did, but addslashes exists for this express purpose...
>
>That's what I also thought originally. But obviously addslashes() doesn't do
>what it's supposed to do - at least not in my case (and on PHP/Win32).
>
>I just tested it again... Try this code:
>
>---------
>// This is the string in question
>$str1 = "c:\somedir\test.txt";
>
>addslashes($str1);
>echo $str1; // gives: c:\\somedir est.txt
>
>// As opposed to...
>
>$str2 = 'c:\somedir\test.txt';// note the single quotes
> //- Thanks to Svein Parnas for this one; although
>I don't know why it works
>
>echo $str2; // gives: c:\somedir\test.txt
>---------
>
>So... Is this a bug or a feature? ;-)

A little of both, actually.

You see, as soon as you put quotes (") on it, PHP will look for variables
($foo) and backslashed characters \n \t \r ...

Try these (just for edification):

$str1 = "c:\\somedir\\test.txt";
echo $str1, "<BR>\n";
echo addslashes($str1), "<BR>\n";

$str2 = 'c:\somedir\test.txt';
echo $str2, "<BR>\n";
echo addslashes($str2), "<BR>\n";

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