RE: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion for fixing Bug #40928

The reason I'm doing this is because it seems that Windows parser looks for an odd number of '"' before the escaping, otherwise the escaping character is included in the outcome, for example: string(25) "md "test ^& echo ^%foo^%"" ==> will output a directory called "test ^& echo ^%foo^%" While: string(31) "md "test "^&" echo "^%"foo"^%""" ==> will output a directory called "test & echo %foo%" (I changed the php code and ran again, these are not the runs of the cmd.exe which does the escaping internally). Which is what I wanted in the first place (and I know it looks ugly...). Tzachi. -----Original Message----- From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:stas@zend.com] Sent: ג 10 יולי 2007 23:51 To: Tzachi Tager Cc: internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion for fixing Bug #40928 > /en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?mfr=true , quoting: "You can use most > characters as variable values, including white space. If you use the > special characters <, >, |, &, or ^, you must precede them with the > escape character (^) or quotation marks." - So all special characters > will be replaced with "^<char>". I think you are not entirely correct here. What the quote means is that if you want foo&bar, you should do either "foo&bar" or foo^&bar - not replace & with "^&". -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com