Re: Stripcslashes behaviour

On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > I've noticed that stripcslashes has behaviour that is incompatible both > with addcslashes and with C behaviour. As follows: if stripcslashes meets > unknown escape (like \" or \<any character except known>) it leaves it as > is, while C ignores the slash (strips it). This behaviour is incompatible > with addcslashes - try: > <? var_dump(stripcslashes(addcslashes("@!#","@!#"))); ?> > > and ther result would be with slashes, though semantically it should be > "@!#". > Was this incompatibility introduced by some reason or this is just a bug? Not sure, but I think you're right in that it should remove the slashes from unknown escapes. If no one objects, I will fix it. -Andrei * "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon." -- Alan Perlis *