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Re: [PHP3] Hello... From: Richard Lynch (rlynch <email protected>)
Date: 08/27/99

At 08:48 AM 8/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I have tried both from a unix shell (bash) and from a web browser. My
>original tests were command-line using 3.0.7 of php.cgi. As I'm running
>3.0.12 as an Apache module I decided that I'd better try it there as well.
>Same result. Are you saying that you can't duplicate this behavior?

You're right: I'm wrong.

\\ *IS* interpolated inside '' to turn into a single \. Every other \char
is not interpreted, so a single \ is left alone as a \. Weird. Very, very
weird. So the following are interpreted inside '':
String Result
\ \
\\ \
\\\ \\
\\\\ \\
\\\\\ \\\

More importantly, you *CANNOT* do this:
$foo = '\';
At least in 3.0.5 CGI, it generates a parse error about an illegal
character. Grrr. I had to put 'aaa \ bbb' just to test this:
http://l-i-e.com/test.htm

Potentially bug report time weird. Definitely worth adding a note to the
php web page.

I shudder to think what scripts this is going to break to fix.

Most likely, we're stuck with it, and you need \\ to get a single slash
inside '' *OR* "", and you just can't use '\' all by itself.

I was using 3.0.5 as CGI.

Sorry for the misinformation previously. I'd gotten so used to using ""
when I needed \n to be a newline and '' when I didn't want it interpreted,
I assumed \\ was the same. I was *so* wrong. 

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