note 103438 added to function.json-decode

There is a problem when passing to json_decode a string with the "\" symbol. It seems to identify it as an escape character and trying to follow it. So sometimes it leads to failed parsing. It seems that just replacing it with "\\" helps. <? print_r(json_decode(str_replace('\\', '\\\\', '{"name":"/\"}'))); ?> where /\ is the string which doesn't worked. ---- Server IP: 195.54.192.44 Probable Submitter: 127.0.0.1 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/103438 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103438/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103438/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103438/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103438/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103438/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103438/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103438 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/103438 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php