#22545 [NEW]: Failed to parse ending escape sequence char (\)

From: neo_in_matrix at msn dot com Operating system: Windows 2000/SP3/Hotfixes PHP version: 4.3.1 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: Failed to parse ending escape sequence char (\) I'm a newbie on PHP, so what I describe here may NOT be a bug. I understand that any character between a paif of single quotes does not get 'escaped'. So I thought the follow small program will print abc\ to the output screen (I'm using the so-named php-cli). <? $s = 'abc\'; print $s; ?> Yet, I get the following message: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in X:\dir\tes t.php on line 6 But the following code runs just fine. It prints out abc\088 That's exactly what I mean to do. <? $s = 'abc\088'; print $s; ?> So my conclusion is that the engine has a little problem dealing with ending \ in a single-quoted string. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22545&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22545&r=gnused