#20206 [Opn->Bgs]: escape the escape char in preg_replace

ID: 20206 Updated by: moriyoshi@php.net Reported By: tea@softhome.net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: *Regular Expressions Operating System: win2k sp3 PHP Version: 4.2.2 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Check your regex pattern again. Two leading backslashes will escape "*". Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-01 01:46:39] tea@softhome.net line 3 also.... missed a '/' :( $_SESSION["l"] = 'c/c++'; $_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\//","\/",$_SESSION["l"]); $_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\+/","\+",$_SESSION["l"]); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-01 01:43:41] tea@softhome.net sorry, a typo in the second line of code $_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\//","\/",$_SESSION["l"]); i missed a '/'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-31 21:38:57] tea@softhome.net let say: $_SESSION["l"] = 'c/c++'; $_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\/","\/",$_SESSION["l"]); $_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\+","\+",$_SESSION["l"]); what i expect is no matter how the user reload the page $_SESSION["l"] should be 'c\/c\+\+' i used the reg exp in perl and tried it out, seems logically correct, but it cause an error in my php page. thx for your attention ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20206&edit=1