RE: [PHP] Backslashing the [ and ] in a regex

Thank you for the reply, Adam, but unfortunately it didn't work. --Sam Adam Bregenzer wrote: > 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 \\[\\]