Re: php seems to be inconsistent in its handling of backslashes ... maybe?

On Mon, April 23, 2007 8:36 am, Philip Thompson wrote: > On Apr 22, 2007, at 1:29 AM, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> On Sun, April 22, 2007 12:54 am, ufan100@gmail.com wrote: >>> -- or maybe it's just the PCRE extension >>> -- or quite likely I have got something wrong >>> >>> Hello members, >>> I'm hoping you could enlighten me. >>> >>> Using error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT, I tested the >>> following statements: >> >> PHP interprets \\ inside of '' to turn \\ into \ >> >> It also tries to be halfway smart about mistakes with \ followed by >> some other non-special character, by just pretending you knew what >> you >> were doing and had \\ there to get just one \, even though you >> didn't. > > Not that I can deny Richard's infinite knowledge of PHP (and it > *eating* code), but is it PHP's responsibility to determine what the > user has typed is (in)correct AND try to *fix* it? Shouldn't PHP just > assume the programmer is not a complete idiot? If there's an error/ > warning/etc, throw it but don't correct it. The actual documented feature is that \ followed by anything other than the characters defined to be special (another \, n, t, r various hex and octal codes) just turns into a plain old \ To *ME* that means you *SHOULD* have had \\ there, since \ is the escape character you use to get a \ inside of a string. I've seen too many people go from: "This is \best" to "This ia a \test" and they do NOT understand why the heck \b and \t didn't work the same... I'd be ecstatic if PHP gave a syntax error for a stray \ inside a string, personally, but apparently I'm in the minority. \\ is one of my regular rants, so you'll be hearing this again :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?