Re: Bug(?) in quotes and \ escaping

OOPS! Thanks for the RTFM. -Stathis. Matthew Ballard wrote: > > Quote from: > http://www.php.net/manual/language.types.string.php > The second way to delimit a string uses the single-quote ("'") character. > When a string is enclosed in single quotes, the only escapes that will be > understood are "\\" and "\'". This is for convenience, so that you can > have > single-quotes and backslashes in a single-quoted string. Variables will > not be expanded inside a single-quoted string. > Matthew > > At 08:48 PM 12/9/2000 +0200, you wrote: > >Is this a bug? > > > >$l = '\'; <--- syntax error, > > in the next line as the string is not terminated(!) > >$l = '\\' <--- correct, $l is assigned the value of a single \ > > > >I thought that only double-quotes (") interpret what's inside them. > >The goal here is to assign $l a single baskslash char. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net