Re: Backslashing the [ and ] in a regex

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 14:06, Sam Masiello wrote: > $rule = ereg_replace("\\\\[[:alpha:]+*/.|<>()$]", "\\\\0", $rule) ; > > But if the user backslashes either a left or right bracket ([ or ]), I > am having difficulty getting that extra backslash into the string. I > tried just adding the [ and ] characters to the line above between the > <> and () characters, but that didn't work along with several other > iterations of attempts to get it to work. > > Does anyone have any ideas? I am stuck. Try adding \\[\\] -- Adam Bregenzer adam@bregenzer.net http://adam.bregenzer.net/