Bug #81635 [NEW]: When curly braces are escaped, the back-slash isn't removed \{

From: shealavington at gmail dot com Operating system: Windows 10 PHP version: 8.0.12 Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:When curly braces are escaped, the back-slash isn't removed \{ Description: ------------ When curly braces are escaped within a string "", the back-slash isn't removed \{. For example "hello\{$foo}" is outputting hello\{bar} instead of hello{bar} Test script: --------------- <?php $foo = "bar"; $test_script = "hello\{$foo}" //- Explanation output below. echo "If \ is the escape character, why are the escaped characters and the escape character both shown?<br>"; echo "Res: <b>c:\path\hello\{$foo}</b><br>"; echo "Expected: <b>c:\path\hello"."{"."$foo}</b><br>"; echo "<br>Notice how in this example, I haven't used a \ but the {} characters are gone when not escaped?<br>"; echo "Res: <b>c:\path\hello{$foo}</b><br>"; echo "<br>If I use \ n, it replaces the \, I don't see \ n like I do in the first example above.<br>"; echo "Res: <b>c:\path\hello\note\{$foo}</b><br>"; Expected result: ---------------- hello{bar} Actual result: -------------- hello\{bar} -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81635&edit=1 -- Fix committed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=globals PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=phptooold Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=81635&r=mysqlcfg