Why does this encoding work in PHP?

From: Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 08:24:13 +0000
Subject: Why does this encoding work in PHP?
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I recently came across a script that was oddly encoded. A bit of digging revealed it was encoded in octal. What puzzles me is why the php interpreter is able to understand the script. An example (not from the original script) require_once "../file.php"; require_once "\56\56\57\146\151\154\145\56\160\150\160"; Arno

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