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Doc Bug #50985 Backslash not escaped in example while using double qoutes.
Submitted: 2010-02-10 02:44 UTC Modified: 2010-02-10 10:17 UTC
From: j at sights dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
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 [2010-02-10 02:44 UTC] j at sights dot de 
Description:
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pattern in example #1 is "/[\s,]+/"... but should be single-quoted or the \ needs to be escaped.

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From manual page: function.preg-split#Beispiele
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 [2010-02-10 10:17 UTC] degeberg@php.net 
Thank you for the report. The \s is not a valid escape sequence in PHP so there is no need for escaping the backslash nor switching to single quotes. You only need to escape a backslash if it would otherwise be regarded as part of an escape sequence, e.g. \\n vs. \n. You can see a list of the escape sequences here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.double
 
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