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Bug #2623 Escaping a backslash doesn't seem to work in preg_replace
Submitted: 1999-10-27 13:02 UTC Modified: 1999-10-28 12:42 UTC
From: rob dot duarte at fmr dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Parser error
PHP Version: 3.0.12 OS: Solaris 2.5.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-10-27 13:02 UTC] rob dot duarte at fmr dot com 
$url = preg_replace( "/\\/", "/", $var);

This returns...

Warning: No ending delimiter found in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/projects/documentation.php3 on line 18

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 [1999-10-27 13:10 UTC] rob dot duarte at fmr dot com 
Workaround:

$url = preg_replace( "/\\134/", "/", $var);
 [1999-10-28 12:42 UTC] andrei at cvs dot php dot net 
This has been fixed in CVS.
Note:
Since PHP does its own backslashing in strings, in order for your
pattern to work properly it would need to look like:
"/\\\\/"
 
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