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Doc Bug #3674 Backreferences need 2 backslashes to work in preg_* functions
Submitted: 2000-02-29 20:56 UTC Modified: 2001-04-16 05:53 UTC
From: sergio at ing dot puc dot cl Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.0 OS: Redhat Linux 6.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-02-29 20:56 UTC] sergio at ing dot puc dot cl 
In the documentation it says that the backreferences should be used with one backslash.  Well, it doesn't work.  But, in the preg_replace documentation examples that you should use 2 backslashes (and it works in all functions the second way)

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 [2001-02-10 14:39 UTC] jimw@php.net 
refiled against 4.0. the sections of pcre.xml lifted from the pcre docs probably needs a caveat added about how backslashes need to be handled.
 [2001-04-16 05:53 UTC] jmoore@php.net 
This has been corrected in documentation.

-James
 
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