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Bug #185 fputs puts wrong count when Backslash in string
Submitted: 1998-03-18 00:55 UTC Modified: 1998-03-28 14:32 UTC
From: philip at qs dot co dot nz Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Other
PHP Version: 3.0b6 OS: Linx-ELF i586
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1998-03-18 00:55 UTC] philip at qs dot co dot nz 
If a backslash is in a string to fputs, then fputs adds an extra character
to the output stream for every backslash

for example:
  $ip="abc\def";
  fclose($fp);
  $fp = fopen("out","w+");
  $x=fputs($fp,"$ip");
  fclose($fp);

File out contains:

   61 62 63 5c 64 65 66 00
   a   b  c  \  d  e  f nul

The same result will be given for the string "abc\\def".

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 [1998-03-28 14:32 UTC] jim 
This is the correct behavior. As noted in the ChangeLog for 3.0b4, "\Z" (where Z
is not one of the usual escape characters) leaves the backslash intact (and generates
an error message at the E_NOTICE level, which isn't usually printed). Putting in a
double backslash simply escapes the backslash and gives the same output.
 
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