note 86957 added to function.preg-replace

The /.../e modifier is a bit tricky (as stated above). Extra steps must be taken to unescape everything. I may be mistaken but I thought that in some older version of PHP "" used to unescape \' also... Example: <?php $str1 = "/.../e will escape all ', \" and \\ in \\1 thru \\9. The problem is because \"\" properly unescapes all but \' - hence extra str_replace!"; $str2 = preg_replace( "/^(.*)$/e", "str_replace('\\\\\\\\\\'','\\'',\"\\1\")", $str1 ); print( $str1 == $str2 ); ?> Could this be done with any less complication? Also there are so many backslashes. No less than 8 are needed to get one but I am sure that 4 should be enough. PHP Version 5.1.6 ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 86.61.77.143 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/86957 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86957/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86957/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86957/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86957/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86957/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86957/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86957 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/86957 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php