Re: Re: ini-parsing, double quotes, windows in 5.3

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 22:43, Jani Taskinen <jani.taskinen@sci.fi> wrote: > Johannes Schlüter kirjoitti: >> >> Hi, >> >> now that we have a publicly available alpha on Windows we get the first >> feedback from Windows users. Within quite short time we got two bug >> reports (#45992 #45994) about a change in the ini-parsing: >> >> With <=5.2 we allow >> >> include_path = "c:\foo\bar\" > > That SHOULD cause a syntax error of course. If it doesn't, > it's the bug to fix. Allowing \" was a bug that was fixed to begin with. > If that causes a syntax error, it's quite easy to catch and fix by people > upgrading to 5.3.. php.ini-recommended, 5.3: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Paths and Directories ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; UNIX: "/path1:/path2" ;include_path = ".:/php/includes" ; ; Windows: "\path1;\path2" ;include_path = ".;c:\php\includes" As you can see, Windows users are explicitly told to use foo\bar\ inside double quotes. This has been like this for years and is also documented in the manual. It looks to me that the old behavior was very intentional, logical or not. -Hannes