Bug #12614: AddSlashes doen't escape Curly braces "{"'s

From: mark@asplen.co.uk Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.0CVS-2001-08-07 PHP Bug Type: Strings related Bug description: AddSlashes doen't escape Curly braces "{"'s AFAIK this is not fixed in versoins beyong 4.0.1pl2 which is what I'm using. I'm using PHP to modify Latex files - particularly to substitute PHP variables with values from a database. Therefore my Latex file could contain: \textbf{$php_variable} I read lines from the Latex file and use something like: $input_line = AddSlashes( fgets($fp)); $str = eval($input_line); As the input line includes a {$ the eval function assumes an array calculation and the { is left out of the output string. I've fixed the problem by adding an additional str_replace to escape the { with \{ first. Kind regards Mark -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=12614&edit=1