note 49226 deleted from function.addcslashes by googleguy

Note Submitter: phpcoder at cyberpimp dot pimpdomain dot com ---- Forgot to add something: The only time you would likely use addcslashes() without specifying the backslash (\) character in charlist is when you are VALIDATING (not encoding!) a data string. (Validation ensures that all control characters and other unsafe characters are correctly encoded / escaped, but does not alter any pre-existing escape sequences.) You can validate a data string multiple times without fear of "double encoding". A single decoding pass will return the original data, regardless of how many times it was validated.)